[1] Abul Hashim was born in a lord family in the village of Kashiara in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal.

He took part in the election to the Bengal Legislative Council in 1936, and participated in the All India Muslim League conference at Allahabad in 1938.

In reply to the plea, made by Ashrafuddin Chowdhury, a Muslim nationalist and peasant leader from Tippera, Kripalini wrote: "All that the Congress seeks to do today is to rescue as many areas as possible from the threatened domination of the League and Pakistan.

"[3][4] After the partition of India, Abul Hashim became the parliamentary leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Provincial Assembly.

[1] He was also a founding member of Pakistan's Council of Islamic Ideology, a constitutional body established in 1962 by Ayub Khan that exists to this day to advise on the Islamisation of the Pakistani state.