 Dehlavi's father, Shaikh Yahya Al Farooqi, who traded in Pashmina, and his grandfather, Shaikh Yahya Abdul Latif Al Farooqi, first migrated from Khorasan, northeastern Iran, to Lahore, and thereafter settled in Ayodhya, in Awadh.His father died when he was only nine years of age and he received his early education from Maulana Abdul Karim Sherwani, and later continued it with Maulana Iftikhar Uddin Gilani.At the age forty, he left Ayodhya for Delhi, where he became the disciple of Khwaja Nizamuddin Auliya.