The invention discloses an optical fiber remote-detection type multifunctional gas leakage listening instrument and method and belongs to the technical field of optical fiber sensing and gas detection. The instrument comprises a laser light source, an optical cable, an optical fiber leakage listening probe, a broadband light source, an optical fiber coupler, a serrated signal generator, an adder,a sinusoidal signal generator, a phase-locked loop, a spectrometer and an industrial control computer. The optical fiber leakage listening probe is of a double-cantilever-beam structure, is used for directly detecting acoustic wave signals generated by leakage of gas, can reduce the influence of environmental noise and vibration on measurement of photoacoustic signals with combination of an activenoise reduction technology, and meanwhile achieves high-sensitivity and high-reliability measurement of the concentration of the gas, namely, the optical fiber leakage listening probe has an opticalear function and an optical nose function. By designing two optical fiber extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometers with the different cavity lengths, simultaneous non-interference demodulation can be conducted on two cantilever beam acoustic sensors through one spectrometer, so that the system structure is simplified. The optical fiber remote-detection type multifunctional gas leakage listening instrument provided by the invention has the advantages of remote detection and intrinsic safety.