Hazrat Maulana Nazir Ahmad Ali was born on 10 February 1905, and his father's name was Hazrat Babu Faqir Ali (ra).

He was first sent to Gold Coast (now Ghana) for Tabligh on 22 February 1929 and returned to Qadian on 5 May 1933. Then he was sent to Gold Coast again in 1936. Then upon the instruction of Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra), he went to Sierra Leone on 13 October 1937 to establish the Ahmadi mission there. When he returned to Qadian on 12 February 1945, Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra), gave him the title of "Kaamyaab Jarnail". When he went to West Africa on 26 November 1945, Hazrat Mirza Bashiruddin Mahmud Ahmad (ra) appointed him as the Raees-ut-Tabligh (Missionary-in-charge). He went to Gold Coast on 19 September 1947 and returned to Rabwah in 1951. He served as the professor in Jamiatul Mubashireen.

Then he was sent again to Sierra Leone in April 1953 and passed away there in 1955.