[4] Shaheed was born on 22 February 1947 in Thanapara, a suburb of Tangail town in the then Bengal Presidency of British India.

[1] Shaheed met Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at the Gonobhaban on 28 January 1972, who asked him to contact Major ANM Nuruzzaman to talk about forming a militia, which later developed into the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini.

[8] Taslim Ahmed, was then home secretary, and someone Shaheed viewed with suspicion as he remained loyal to Pakistan during the Bangladesh Liberation War.

[8] The situation at the Bangladesh Rifles headquarters, Peelkhana, calmed down after Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman visited them.

[8] After the Assassination of President Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in the 15 August 1975 Bangladesh Coup d'état, there were calls for the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini to be dissolved.

[8] Kader Siddiqui visited Shaheed in the morning of 15 August at the Jatiya Rakkhi Bahini and expressed surprised at seeing tanks on the streets of Dhaka.

[9] On the evening on 15 August, General Khaled Mosharraf summoned Shaheed and Lieutenant Colonel Sarwar Mollah to the Bangabhaban and defended the assassination of Sheik Mujibur Rahman.