Aziz Jahan (1924-2015), who started composing verse at an early age with the pen name of Ada Badayuni, came to acquire the name of Ada Jafri after her marriage to Nurul Hasan Jafri. She was born in a traditional household in Badayun where she received her early education and also passed the Matriculation examination as a private candidate. She got counselling on her poetry from Jafar Ali Khan and Akhtar Sheerani in whose journal called Rooman she published her first ghazal in 1954. Following partition, she migrated to Pakistan and settled in Karachi.