Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Al ash-Sheikh was born in Riyadh in 1890 to the noted family of Saudi religious scholars, the Al ash-Sheikh, descendants of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
[1] His father was Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Abdul Latif Al As Sheikh, and his mother was Jawharah bint Abdul Aziz Al Hilali.
[2] He served as president of the Constituent Council of the Muslim World League.
He was one of the closest advisors of King Faisal having significant effects on the latter's role in the Arab world.
[8] He was the first cousin of King Faisal whose mother, Tarfa bin Abdullah, was from the Al Sheikh family.