Muhammad Riza Aghahi was born in 1809 in the village of Kiyat, near Khiva, in the family of Merab (head of water resources and irrigation control) Erniyazbek. He belonged to the Uzbek nobility from the Yuz family. When Muhammad Riza turns three, his father Erniyazbek dies, and Muhammad Riza remains in the hands of his uncle Munis Shermukhammad, who was a famous poet, writer, historian and translator, and is widely known as Munis Khorezmi. After Erniyazbek's death, Munis Khorezmi becomes mirabom.