Abdul Wadud was born on 26 April 1894 to a Bengali family of Muslim Kazis in the village of Bagmara in Pangsha, Goalanda subdivision, Faridpur district, Bengal Presidency.
He was the son of railway station master Kazi Syed Husain and a relative of Qazi Motahar Hossain.
His forefathers had arrived to Mughal Bengal from Western Asia during the reign of Emperor Jahangir, designated as Islamic court judges.
In 1926, he founded Muslim Sahitto Somaj[2] in Dhaka and he also led the Buddhir Mukti (rising up from ignorance) movement[3] with some young writers.
After 1947, Dhaka University proposed him for teaching but he got more opportunities for writing in Calcutta and stayed there for the remainder of his life.