[3] Abdul Malik was born on 1 December 1 1929 in the present-day Dakshin Surma Upazila are of Sylhet district in the then British India to Moulavi Furqan Ali and Syeda Nurunniea Khatun.

[4] In 1966, Malik set up a cardiac unit at Military Hospital Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

He joined the Institute of Post Graduate Medicine and Research, Dhaka (now Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University) in June 1970 and established a cardiac unit there.

[2] In 1978, Abdul Malik founded National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Dhaka where he worked as a professor until 1989.

[2] Together they had one daughter, Fazilatunnesa, a professor of cardiology and Senior Chief Consultant at the National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute in Dhaka, and two sons, Masud Malik, an industrialist, and Manzur Malik, a researcher working in Canada.