Shaykh Ibrahim was the son of Sayyidi Shaykh Muhammad 'Uthman Abduh al Burhani. He inherited the Burhaniyya Tariqa in 1983. Under the guidance of Shaykh Ibrahim, the Burhaniyya Tariqa continued to expand beyond the Nile Valley. Shaykh Ibrahim considered the teachings of his father as complete and understood his role as head of the Tariqa to be about action and not theory. To achieve this, Shaykh Ibrahim travelled widely across the globe, meeting many of his murids. These actions helped globalise the Burhaniyya Tariqa, while maintaining its centralised structure. He passed away in 2003.