[2] He was born at Matlab Uttar of Chandpur in the then undivided India (now in Bangladesh) in 1902.

[3][4] Ali passed entrance from Munshiganj High School and HSC from Dhaka College.

[1] He founded a diarrhoeal disease hospital under ICDDR,B at Matlab.

[3][4] He was elected as a member of East Pakistan legislative assembly in 1962.

[1][3][4] Jatiya Sangsad passed an obituary reference on him in 2003 and the postal department issued a first-day cover and stamp in his honour in 2005.