He was one of the nine men who had constituted themselves as the committee of the Free Officers Movement, led the country's cavalry corps during the uprising and was one of only three living members of the Revolutionary Command Council at the time of his death.
او یکی از نه مردی بود که کمیته جنبش افسران آزاد را تشکیل داده بود، در طول قیام جبهه سواره نظام را رهبری کرد و در زمان مرگش یکی از سه عضو زنده شورای فرماندهی انقلاب بود.