Born to an aristocratic family in present-day Aceh, Teuku Mohammad Hasan studied law at Leiden University.

Following the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference and the end of national revolution, Teuku Mohammad Hasan served as a senator in the USI.

Muhammad Hasan was born on April 4, 1906, as Teuku Sarong, into an aristocratic family in Sigli, Aceh.

Hasan returned to Indonesia, and landed in Ulèë Lheuë Sea Port, Kutaradja (now Banda Aceh) in 1934.

His other education activity was establishing Perguruan Taman Siswa Aceh Chapter in Kutaraja, on 11 July 1937.

During the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies (1942 - 1945), he was chairman of Koperasi Ladang Pegawai Negeri (Field Cooperative for the Civil Servants) in Medan He was a member of the Sumatran Investigating Committee for Preparatory Work for Independence (BPUPK) and subsequently the Preparatory Committee for Indonesian Independence.

[1] This body was chaired by Sukarno, who declared Indonesian independence on August 17, 1945, two days after Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces at the end of the Pacific War.

[4] PDRI leaders moved around West Sumatra in an effort to evade arrest by the Dutch who wanted to abolish the group.

Based on the Roem–Van Roijen Agreement, on July 13, 1949, Dutch troops were to be pulled from Republic of Indonesia regions and their leaders were to be freed.

The PDRI would therefore no longer be required, and Sjafruddin Prawiranegara disbanded the PDRI and returned the mandate to the President of Republic of Indonesia In 1951, as chair of Trading and Industry Commission of DPRS (People's Representative Council), he advocated for oil company nationalization in Indonesia.

One of his book is Sejarah Perminyakan di Indonesia (published by Yayasan Sari Pinang Sakti, 1985).