Salah Muhammad Sharif, known as Salah Haji Sharif, was born in 1955 in Wala Samt village, belonging to Said Sadiq district. He was a villager who worked in agriculture. In 1977, the Baathist regime forcibly relocated him to the Shanir complex. He was married to Maryam Fattah and was the father of two sons and two daughters (Ako, Shaho, Halima, Chanur).

He joined the Peshmerga ranks in 1980 at the headquarters of the Surin Forces, affiliated with the local committee of the Fourth Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party. Mulla Omar Bani Benok was the forces' commander at the time.

He took part in the battles of Razla and Parzan, the Sarbalkha battle in 1982, the Ahmad Awa battle in 1987, and guerrilla warfare activities in the Sharazur plain and at the foot of Mount Surin.

In 1988, Salah Muhammad and a group of his Peshmerga comrades fell into an ambush by mercenaries (jash) of the Baathist regime on the Awi Rashin bridge in the Sharazur plain. After confrontations and clashes between the two sides, Salah Muhammad and two of his Peshmerga comrades (Tawfiq Rahim and Jalal Pinjwini) were martyred.

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Archive of the Encyclopedia Authority of the Kurdistan Democratic Party