Syed A. B. Mahmud Hossain

Syed Abul Bashar Mahmud Hossain (19162 August 1981) was a Bangladeshi lawyer and jurist who served as the 2nd Chief Justice of Bangladesh during 1975–1978.

Early life and career Hossain was born into a Bengali Muslim family of Syeds in Laskarpur Union in Habiganj district in 1916. He was a descendant of Syed Nasiruddin, a general of the Sultan Shamsuddin Firuz Shah who helped conquer Sylhet. He joined the Dhaka District Bar in 1940. He served as the principal of Darul Ulum Ahsania Madrasa, Dhaka. He was the advocate general of East Pakistan in 1964. He was then elevated to the High Court Division on 18 January 1972.

Personal life and death

Husain died on 2 August 1981 in Dhaka. His son, Syed Md. Dastgir Husain, is a retired Judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh. His daughter married the renowned eye surgeon from Phulbari, Sylhet, Prof. M. A. Rahim Choudhury, with whom he shared literary interests. Husain translated into Bengali and English the Diwan-e-Gausia, a collection of Persian poems attributed to Abdul Qadir Jilani.