Career
On 2 January 2016 Sheikh Zahrani was executed by the Saudi state along with 46 others convicted of terrorism. Growing up in the Al-Baha region, al-Zahrani attended the Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University where he studied law, while working as an Imam. He was arrested in Abha by Saudi police on 5 August 2004 on charges of terrorism.
His capture was considered a serious blow to Al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.