Sheikh dahiru usman bauchi biography definition

Wednesday, June 28, , which fell on Muharram 2, , marked the th birthday of renowned cleric and leader of the Nigerian Islamic Sufi group, the tariqa Tijjaniyya movement, Sheikh Dahiru Usman Bauchi. Currently the deputy chairman of the Fatwa Committee of the Nigerian Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), he was born on June 28, , the equivalent of Muharram 2, After Hijrah in the Islamic calendar.

Going by the Gregorian calendar, he would be 97 years old, but the lunar Islamic calendar effectively makes him years old. Of Fulani parentage, he was born in Nafada town in the present Gombe state to a well-known scholar, Gwani Alhaji Usman Adam, and Hajiya Maryam Ardo Sule whose parents were from Gamazo in Yobe state. 

At the time of his birth, Nafada was a centre of Islamic learning, with his father as a Muqaddam or leader in the tariqa Tijjaniyya Sufi order founded by Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tijjani, the 17th century Algerian ascetic.

The young Dahiru studied and memorised the Qur’a