 He was initially a member of the council of scholars ("International Tablighi Shura") which was elected to run the affairs of Tablighi Jamaat after the death of his father Maulana Inamul Hasan Kandhlawi.After his death, his burial was at Nizamuddin Dargah grounds in New Delhi.In 1969, Maulana Zubair ul Hassan married Tahira Khatoon, daughter of Al-hafiz Ilyas of Shahranpur, one of the sons-in-law of Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi.