[citation needed] He received a madrasa education and fought under Hezbi Islami commander Mawlawi Abdul Raziq Muhammad Hasan in Kandahar during the 1980s.
[2] He reportedly met Osama bin Laden in 1998 following US cruise missile strikes on Al-Qaeda bases and told him to leave Afghanistan.
[2] He renounced the Taliban following the US-led invasion in 2001 and encouraged people to support the Northern Alliance.
[2][5] Abdul Samad was shot and killed while carrying groceries home with two[1] of his five children in Kandahar on 14 January 2006, by two men riding a motorcycle.
[2] The Taliban claimed responsibility for the killing,[5] with spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf Ahmadi saying that he was a traitor[1] whom they had been hunting for a long time.