Legumes are climate resilient crop rich with edible and digestible protein comprising major component of balanced diet system. The multiple benefits associated with this crop including its role in sustainable agriculture has made it important pillar of agriculture system. However, the production and productivity of legumes are adversely affected under rapid climate change resulting abiotic stress in the crop. Abiotic stresses like drought, heat, salt, cold, heavy metal and flooding stress has been observed in legumes under current climate change scenario. The internal mechanism of plant is impaired under the adverse affect of abiotic stress. Within a decade our scientific communities have developed tools and techniques which can be successfully utilized to investigate large number of QTLs, genes associated with imparting abiotic stress tolerance in legumes. Integrated genetics, molecular, breeding and omics approaches have been used as platform to highlight genes behind abiotic stress tolerance in legumes and also to develop abiotic stress tolerant legumes. Keeping these points, this review is highlighting the contribution of various molecular and breeding approaches toward imparting abiotic stress tolerance in legumes. Wealth of information with respect to imparting abiotic stress tolerance in legumes has been gathered and presented in this review article which can be utilized by our scientific community to develop climate smart legumes.