He was born into a family of cattle breeder. It comes from the subgenus Aydabol of the Suyindyk clan of the Argyn tribe of the Middle Zhuz. His mother died when he was one year old. He graduated from the madrasah (1908-1910).

At the end of 1912, Toraigyrov came to Troitsk, enrolled in the spiritual Muslim school Rasulia: he studied science, mastered the Russian language - read Lermontov, Pushkin, Krylov. In July 1913 he left his studies because of illness and went to teach children in the village. Since 1913 he worked as a secretary in the editorial office of the first Kazakh magazine "Haykap", in the same place his first essays were published. The works of Toraigyrov were published by separate books already in Soviet times.

At this time the poet says the words that have become known:

Having entered the path of seeking the truth, I will not give up, I will endure all the trials, overcome fatigue, I will go through delusions. But I will stay true to the plan

After the February Revolution of 1917, trying to be closer to the people, he comes to Semipalatinsk. He embraces a joyful feeling, as well as all intellectuals of the Kazakh society of that time.

"I want to be the sun that would scatter the darkness over the head of my people"

With the advent of Soviet power, the dawn of freedom came, and each nation was able to heal independently and create its own state. Sultanmakhmut became chairman of the Shidertinsky Revolutionary Committee, but at the same time he contacted the Alash-Ordinites, published articles in their newspaper Sary-Arka. Warmly capturing the ideas of the leaders of "Alash", he admired them in his poems.

He died at the age of 26 from tuberculosis.