Muhammad Adbuallah was born in Upper Egypt on March 30,1912. He memorized the Qura'n in the Kuttab of his village and then joind the preparatory department in Dar Al Oloum. In 1927, he wrote his first novel "Perplexed Love" which was published only after his death. In 1927, he graduated from Dar Al Oloum in Late 1927, he joined the Arabic Language Academy as an editor till he became a general supervisor. In summer 1954, he was sent to Paris on a scholorship.

He was interested in the works of Gubran Khalil Gubran & Michael Ne'ma as well as al-Manfaloty's translated works. He also read translations of such novels as Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina", and Flaubert "Madamme Bouvary".

Muhammad Abdullah wrote 13 novels and ten collections of short stories including 143 short stories.

Novels "The Foundling", 1947, "After Sunset", 1949, "The Lablab Tree", 1949 "The White Scarf", 1951, "Autumn's Sun",1952, "Olive Branch", 1955 "For the Sake of My Son", 1957, "Silence of the Storm", 1960, "Virgin Paradise", 1963, "Silent House", 1966, "Searcher for the Truth", 1966 "Time is still ahead",1968, a novel that he did not finish, 1971.

Short stories
"The Mayor's Son", 1948, "The Western Window", 1954, "Things for Memory", 1958, "The Black Plait", 1965, "The Crime's Edge", 1966, "The Threads of Light", 1967, "A Myth From Love Book", 1968, "Juliette on The Moon ", 1970, "Silent Tears", 1971

He also wrote a book entitled "A Meeting between two Generations", 1973, which is a collection of dialogues with pioneer writers such as Dr. Taha Hussein, Abbass Al Aqqad, Yehia Haqqi, Muhammad Farid Abu Hadeed, Mahmoud Taymour, Muhammad Kamel Hussein, Dr. Hussein Fawzi and others

Other Works
He wrote also "Issues and Literary Battles", 1974 and "The Other Side, Literary Essays", 1977.

Some of his works were translated to Persian, English, Italian, German and Chinese.

Many of his novels were turned into plays, movies and T.V. and radio serials.