His father Shaykh Muhammad Saeed Banarsi

He is the eldest son of the great scholar Shaykh Muhammad Saeed Banarsi. Shaykh Muhammad Saeed Banarsi was born in 1858/1274 and was a Sikh who loved to debate other religions, and after debating with Molana Ubaydullah Sindhi (author of Tuhfatul Hind), he converted to Islam in 1874. In 1875, he started his studies in Dar Uloom Deoband. After studying the books of Fiqh and when he started to study Sihhah Sittah, he developed a taste for acting upon Hadith, hence he went after to study under Mian Nazeer Husayn Dehlwi, Hafiz Abdullah Ghazipuri and other scholars in Dehli.

Imam Bukhari mentioned in Adab Al-Mufrad (Eng Tran by Dakwah corner, by Abu Nassir Ibrahim AbdurRauf with commentaries based on different scholars)

"AbdurRahman ibn razin said: "We passed by Ar-Rabdha and were told "There is Salma Al-Akwa". We went and greeted him. Then he held out his hands and said, "With these two hands I offered allegience to the Prophet (saw)" he held out his palm as massive as the palm of a camel, and we rose and kissed it" (sound chain)

Commentary: Explaining similar narrations, Imam Albanee explained, "As for kissing the hand, there are many narrations which all point to its establishment from the Prophet (saw) and the pious predecessors. Thus, it is our opinion that it is permissible to kiss the hand of a scholar of the following conditions are met:

Biography of Hafiz Muhammad ibn Barakallah Lakhwi (1806-1893)

Sayid Mian Nazeer Husayn Dehlawi: “The noble complete cognisant pious, gathering the rational and transmitted knowledge, following the example of prophets, the elite of the jurists, the Molvi (scholar) Muhammad, the truthful successor of the Molvi Barakallah Lakhwi”

Shamsul Haq Azeenbadi: “The complete scholar, the pious son of the pious (father), Muhammad ibn Barakallah Lakhwi Al-Punjabi”

Ahmad Ali Saharanpuri: “The complete scholar, possessor of pious behaviour, Al-Hafiz Muhammad Al-Lakhwi Al-Punjabi”