Al-Dailami was born in
Dhamar, his mother died when he was two years old. He studied in a
Kuttab, then he moved to
Sanaa, before he went to study at
Al-Azhar University with the emergence of the
North Yemen Civil War in 1962. Later on, he worked at the
Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, and had a master's degree from
Umm al-Qura University in 1978, and a PhD from the Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in 1984. Al-Dailami served as
Minister of Justice from 1994 until 1997, and as a member in the
House of Representatives from 1986 to 1993. ==Personal life==