He was born in 1853, and was the legal successor to the estate of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. Despite the fact that the father disinherited Mirza Sultan in the 1880s as a reprisal for non-cooperation in his quest to marry [Muhammadi Begum], the book The Punjab Chiefs show him as the inheritor of the Qadian estate.
Mirza Sultan had a very successful career as a senior government administrator, rising to be Deputy Commissioner during the British Raj. The record of how he managed riots in the Punjab in the absence of the British administrator is quite commendable.
In addition to his career, he was also considered a distinguished literary figure in Lahore and is mentioned in several journals of the area.
He tried his best to stay at a distance from the cult founded by his father, and was never a member of that organisation, which was headed by his younger brother during the 1920s.
At his deathbed 1931, when he was not in full faculty of his senses, his wife was manipulated by the leadership of the Qadiani Ahmadiyya cult into signing an affidavit that Mirza Sultan Ahmad had been initiated into the Qadiani organisation on his deathbed.