Ufa Governorate
Babich was born in the village of , Birsk county, Ufa Governorate, in the Russian Empire, a place formerly called the Bashkir-patrimonial Kuyukovoy Kanlinskoy parish (now Dyurtyulinsky District of Bashkortostan). He did his primary education in his native village, in a madrassas directed by his father, Muhametzakir, with an Orenburg governor appointed Mullah from the Asyan mahalallah. In 1910, he traveled the Kazakh steppes and taught Kazakh children.