Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab An haife shi a Disamba 22, 1998, anfi sanin sa da na cikin tufafi Bamba, dan asalin Najeriya ne lokacin da yana dan shekara 23 aka same shi da laifin boye abu mai fashewa a rigar sa tare da kokarin tayar da shi a wani jirgi mallakin kasar Amurika wato gabas maso kudu kafanonin jiragen sama na mayaka 263, akan hanyar sa daga Amstadam zuwa Detroit, jihar Michigan, ranar Kirsimati ta 2009. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab shine auta daga yayan mahaifinsa su 16. Mahaifin sa shine Alhaji Umaru Mutallab, mai arziki kuma babban dan kasuwa, ma'aikacin banki, tsohon shugaban bankin First Bank, tsohon kwamishina a ma'aikatar cigaban tattalin arziki a Najeriya. Jaridar The Times ta ayyana Alhaji Abdulmutallab a matsayin daya daga cikin shahararun attajirai a Afrika. Ma haifiyar Umar Aisha, itace ta biyu daga cikin matan mahaifin sa. Asalin iyalan sun taso ne daga garin Funtua na jihar Katsina. Amma shi Abdulmutallab ya taso ne a garin Kaduna dake Arewacin Najeriya a lokacin yarintar sa yayi karatu a makarantar Essence International School Ya kuma yi karatu a makarantar Rabiatu Mutallib Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies, ya kuma yi karatu a makarantar The British School dake a birnin Lome, Togo.