He was born in the city of Samarra, then part of the Ottoman Empire, where he was educated and then at Al-Rashdiya School in Baghdad.
He worked as an employee in real estate departments in numbers of Iraqi cities.
He grew up in Baghdad and completed his initial studies there, where he became acquainted with notables poets such as Marouf al-Rasafi, Jamil Sidqi al-Zahawi and Abdul Rahman al-Banaa.
Wrote many poets in nostalgia and tenderness, published them in the Iraqi newspapers.
His son Walid Saleh Badri published his collection in 1959 and called it The Diwan of Wishes and reprinted in 1961, and also wrote The Innocent Criminal or Truth of Conceived printed in 1928.