Rabie Bin Yaqoot was born in Ajman in 1928. He joined the Katateeb early but did not stay there for long. He tried to search for work to earn a living from before he traveled to Kuwait in the 1940s with a group of his friends including Hamad Khalifa Bushahab and Rashid Bin Safwan. He was then in his early twenties and was known to have the talent of poetry.