Background
Hasan was born in Lucknow, India. He belonged to a prominent landowning (madad-i ma'ash) family of the United Provinces. He was the son of Saiyid Abdul Hasan and Nur Fatima Begum. His father was a District Settlement Officer and later President of the Court of Wards in the United Provinces. He was a grandson of Sir Sayed Wazir Hasan, Chief Justice of the Court of Oudh and President of the Muslim League who called for Hindu-Muslim unity in 1936. He was married to Nawabzadi Khurshid Laqa Begum Sahiba, a daughter of Nawab Raza Ali Khan of Rampur. They had two children, Sayyid Sirajul Hasan and Sayyida Talat Fatima Hasan.
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