Sa'ādat Ali Saharanpuri was appointed as the first rector of the seminary.[21] Following the division of the seminary; Muzaffar Hussain who was the last rector of the unified seminary; occupied on the position at the Mazahir Uloom Waqf Qadeem till his death in 2003.[22] He was succeeded by Muḥammad Saeedi.[22] In the early years of the seminary, the administrative tasks of the seminary were also performed by a vice-rector; Abd al-Wāhid Khān served on the position from 1881 to 1896, and thus there appears to be confusion in dates, until a permanent position of rector was adopted which follows in sequence after Munshi Maqbool Aḥmad.[21]