He spent almost 50 years instructing Hadith, Mantiq, Islamic philosophy, and other subjects at Darul Uloom Deoband.

[1][2][3] Muhammad Ibrahim Balyawi was born in 1304 AH (1887 AD) at Qazipura, Ballia.

[4][5][6] He received his elementary education in Persian and Arabic from Jamiluddin Naginavi in Jaunpur, read books on logic from Farooq Ahmad Chirayakoti and Hidayatullah Khan Rampuri, and studied theology from Abdul Ghaffar Mauwi.

At the Deoband seminary, his teachers included Mahmood Hasan Deobandi and Azizur Rahman Usmani.

[9] He took the oath of Bay'ah at the hand of his student, Wasiullah Fatehpuri in Sufism, and became his authorised disciple.