Salah Muhammad Sharif is known as Salah Haji Sharif. He was born in 1955 in the village of Wolasmiti, affiliated with the Said Sadiq district. He was a villager and engaged in farming. In 1977, he was forcibly relocated by the Ba'ath regime to the Shanir forced-settlement complex. He was married, his wife's name was Maryam Fatah, and he had two sons and two daughters named Ako, Shaho, Halima, and Chnur.

In 1980, he became a Peshmerga at the Headquarters of the Surin Force, affiliated with the Regional Committee of the 4th Branch of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, when Mala Omar Bani Banok was the commander of the force.

He participated in the Razla and Parazan battle in 1981, the Sarbalkha battle in 1982, the Ahmad Awa battle in 1987, and the partisan activities of the Sharazur Plain and the foothills of Mount Surin.

In 1988, Salah Muhammad and a group of his comrades fell into an ambush by the Jash of the Ba'ath regime on the Rishin water bridge in the Sharazur Plain. As a result of the confrontation with them, Salah Muhammad and two of his comrades named Tawfiq Rahim and Jalal Penjwini were martyred. 

Source:

- Archive of the Encyclopedia Board of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.