Al-Juhaiman, who was known among his friends as Abu Suhail, was born in Ghaslah village in 1912 and brought up in the neighboring village of Qarain in Najd.

After receiving his primary lessons in Qur’an recitation in a village school, he traveled to Riyadh in search of higher education in 1925. Next year he traveled with a relative to Makkah for further studies. Initially, he had to take up a job, as he did not have the money to meet the cost of education.

However, in 1927, he was welcomed to the Institute of Education, newly established by King Abdul Aziz, with a scholarship that could meet his needs. He graduated from the institute in 1930 and was deputed shortly to establish a school in Al-Kharj. Prince Saud (later King Saud) appointed him as teacher in 1931 to young princes in his palace, a job he did for one year.

After leaving his job at the palace, Al-Juhaiman devoted himself to journalism and launched the Akhbar Dhahran, the first newspaper to be published from the Eastern Province.

He wrote a number of articles and books, including research pieces on the folk life in the Kingdom. The most famous of these studies are published as the Encyclopedia of Folk Legends in the Arabian Peninsula in five volumes and the Encyclopedia of Folk Proverbs in 10 volumes.

Another of his popular work, “The Journey with the Sun,” is a travelogue about his foreign trips. His famous book “Parisian Memoirs” is about his six-month sojourn in Paris in the early 1960s.