While his exact place of birth is unknown, sources give his birthplace as either Afghanistan, India or Pakistan.
He was one of the perpetrators of the Battle of Broken Hill, a mass shooting which left six dead and seven injured.
This caused Abdullah to bear great ill-feeling towards the Union, as well as the local sanitary inspector, Brosnan, who prosecuted him.
[5] Another camel-driver and Abdullah's next-door neighbour, Gool Badsha Mahomed, was an Afridi tribesman from Afghanistan, and had fought in the Turkish Army.
[6] Mullah Abdullah and Gool formed an alliance and plotted a mass shooting, to take place on 1 January 1915 in the Battle of Broken Hill.