[1] Yusufzai was born in 1864 to a Bengali Muslim family from the village of Charan in Kalihati, Tangail, Bengal Presidency, British Raj.

[citation needed] His family traced their ancestry to Pashtuns of the Yusufzai tribe, who had migrated from Afghanistan to Bengal and become culturally assimilated.

[1] Yusufzai was appointed to the post of Sub-Registrar of Pakulla in 1889 and was upgraded to Sub-Deputy Registrar in 1891.

Some of notable works are Bangiya Mussalman (1891), Shaishab Kusum (Poem, 1895), Dalil Registrari Shiksa (1897), Uchcha Bangala Shiksabidhi (1901), Notes on Mohammedan Education in Bengal (1903), Mussalman Jatiya Sangit (1909), Sahitya Pratibha (1914), Sahitya Shiksa (1915).

Bangiya Mussalman and Notes on Mohammedan Education in Bengal reflect his social consciousness, national feeling, humanity, educational interests, economic and political sense, and earned his a place in society.