 Shukrullah Mubarakpuri was born in 1895 or 1896 in Pura Rani, Mubarakpur.His father, originally from Kopaganj had settled in Mubarakpur.Mubarakpuri studied books of Arabic with Muhammad Mahmood Maroofi in Madrasa Ihya al-Ulum in Mubarakpur and later studied rational sciences in a Madrasa based in Laharpur, Sitapur.