Lebanon Military intervention against ISIL Sami Mahmud Mohammed al-Oraydi or Abu Mahmoud al-Shami (also: al-Uraydi; Arabic: سامي محمود محمد العُرَيدي, romanized: Sāmī Maḩmūd Muḥammad al-ʿUraydī; born 1973) is a senior sharia official for the al-Qaeda affiliated Hurras al-Din[2][3] who was the chief religious authority for al-Nusra Front and the group's former second-in-command.

He was previously al-Nusra's second highest sharia authority under former religious leader and military commander Abu Maria Al-Qahtani.

Al-Oraydi was promoted over al-Qahtani after the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) overran Nusra Front positions in eastern Syria in 2014.

He maintained a Twitter account under the handle @sami_oride and reportedly tweeted that the "ideal" jihadist is a moral individual watched by God and the public.

Al-Oraidi has also used social media to attack ISIL, particularly after the group declared its caliphate in June 2014.