Sitapuri was born as Muhammad Ilyas Khan on 30 October 1934, in Sitapur, British India.

His family belonged to the Yusufzai tribe who had migrated to Sitapur during the reign of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.

Sitapuri's stories and novels have also been published in India by the Shama Book Depot, (Delhi).

[1][3] Sitapuri makes historical facts live with fictional characters and vivid scripts, so that the readers find themselves actually walking in the remote era.

[4] Sitapuri was married to Zia Tasneem Bilgrami who also used to write Islamic biographies in Suspense Digest.