الرهينة

He was born in the isolation of Al-Naqilin, Al-Sayani district, Ibb district.
His father, the militant Sheikh Muti' bin Abdullah Dammaj, fled from the "Shabaka" prison in Taiz to Aden and began writing his famous articles in the newspaper "Fatat Al-Jazeera" against the regime of Imam Yahya and his sons, and later founded the "Ahrar Party" with his comrades. He received his initial education in the teacher "Al-Kuttab" with his peers in the village, so he memorized the Holy Qur'an, after which his father took over the process of teaching and educating him from his private library, which he returned from Aden. His father enrolled him in the Ahmadiyya School in Taiz, where he obtained an elementary certificate in 1957. His father, through a friend of his, was able to send him to Egypt in 1958. He obtained a middle school certificate from Beni Suef in Upper Egypt in 1960, and a secondary certificate from Al-Makassed School in Tanta in 1963. He joined the Faculty of Law at Cairo University in 1964, but left it after two years and joined the Faculty of Arts. Department of journalism, after his literary orientation emerged. He began writing political articles and his early fiction works for the magazine "The New Yemen".
In 1968, his father summoned him to the homeland, so he left Egypt for Yemen to participate in the national work and to stay with his father, who refused to give up the goals of the Yemeni revolution and peace with the royalists. He did not complete his studies due to his father's health conditions and his seclusion for political work. He was elected as a member of the Shura Council, the first elected parliament in the country in 1970 AD from the Al-Sayani district, and he was the head of the Committee for Suggestions, Petitions and Grievances Investigation.