Aden was born to Hafitha Sheikh Ali and Ibrahim Moallim Guuleed Aw Hirsi in Sarinley neighborhood of Baardheere district in December 1978.
He spent a good part of his growing years in the Bardera District, where many of his family members and relatives have lived for generations.
[3] In the same year, Al-Shabaab, a local Islamist group unhappy with the presence of many foreign relief organizations in the region, declared its strong opposition to Aw Hirsi's popular[4] administration.
The group consequently orchestrated a peaceful way to frustrate and ultimately oust the governor by bankrolling Aw Hirsi's challenger, Hussein Ismail, the latter of whom then gathered a clan militia and threatened to start a civil war in the region.
Since 2011, Aden has been a senior political adviser to Prime Ministers of Somalia, Dr. Abdi Farah Shirdon, Abdiweli Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed, Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke.