Ludhianvi was born to Hafiz Muhammad Yusuf in 1934 in an Aryan family in Salempur Jagraon Tehsil, Ludhiana district. His father was a pious man and a middle-class landowner and farmer. He got his early education from Government High School at Salempur. During the eighth grade, it was decided the partition of India. He moved to Pakistan with his parents and settled in Shorkot and passed the middle school examination here. After that in 1949 he entered Jamia Darul Uloom Rabbania in Toba Tek Singh, to get religious education. After two years, he enrolled in Madrasa Ashraf Al-Rasheed in Faisalabad. Meanwhile, he married into a family living in Kamalia. Then he entered Jamia Qasim-ul-Uloom Multan and graduated from Dars-i Nizami in 1956. He studied Bukhari and Tirmidhi from Maulana Abdul Khaliq, a student of Mahmud Hasan Deobandi, and Sahih Muslim from Mufti Mahmood. He also had the permission of Hadith from Muhammad Zakariyya al-Kandhlawi, Muhammad Idris Kandhlawi and Muhammad Yousuf Banuri.[4]