His older brother is Bozor Sobir, Tajikistan's most well-known and preeminent poet, and politician.

He was a student of Mark Krasnosel'skii, who was a Soviet, Russian and Ukrainian mathematician renowned for his work on nonlinear functional analysis and its applications.

[2] His works have been published in Soviet as well as European and American mathematical and physics journals.

[3][better source needed] He has made a big contribution in the education of young scientists of Tajikistan.

[6] After an acute illness Sabirov died on June 23, 1977, at the age of 37 in Voronezh, but his body was transported to his birthplace near Orzhenikidzebad, now Vahdat, Tajikistan.