He was a senior disciple of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, and his khalifa Syed Muhammad Ishaq was the founder of the Charmonai Darbar.

Ibrahim was born in 1863, to a Bengali Muslim family in the village of Nalua in Noakhali, Bengal Presidency.

He later studied at the Calcutta Alia Madrasa, before enrolling at the Madrasah as-Sawlatiyah in Mecca, Arabia.

[8] He later returned to Bengal, where he settled in Chandpur, where one of his wives was from banu tamim,one of the daughters of governor of makkah.

He was also married to girl from Daulatpur whose father had heard him reciting at a Quranic event there.