Editing Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (section)

=== Family background ===
Abbas belonged to the [[Ansari (Panipat)|Ansari]] family of [[Panipat]], tracing its roots back to [[Abu Ayyub al-Ansari]], a close companion of the Islamic prophet [[Muhammad]], and among the famed personalities that it produced we find: the 12th century [[Sufism|Sufi]] saint [[Abdullah Ansari]] of [[Herat]] in [[Afghanistan]]; his maternal great-grandfather [[Altaf Hussain Hali]], a student of [[Mirza Ghalib]] and himself an Urdu poet of repute; his paternal grandfather Khwaja Ghulam Abbas, one of the chief rebels of the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857|1857 Rebellion]] movement, and the first martyr of [[Panipat]] to be blown from the mouth of a cannon; his father Ghulam-us-Sibtain, among the first graduates from [[Aligarh Muslim University]], who was a tutor of a prince and a businessman who modernised the preparation of [[Unani medicine]]s; Abbas's mother, Masroora Khatoon, was the daughter of Khwaja Sajjad Husain, an educator keen on female education, having established the first school for girls in Panipat.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=[[Syeda Saiyidain Hameed|Saiyidain Hameed]] |first=Syeda |date=18 October 2017 |title=Khwaja Ahmad Abbas: The Inveterate Communicator |url=https://www.sahapedia.org/khwaja-ahmad-abbas-the-inveterate-communicator |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205164645/https://www.sahapedia.org/khwaja-ahmad-abbas-the-inveterate-communicator |archive-date=5 February 2024 |website=[[Sahapedia]] |quote=}}</ref>