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By Anthony Maliki, Abuja
Prominent Islamic Scholar, Shiekh Dahiru Usman Bauchi, has died today, Thursday, November 27, 2025.
He was born on June 29, 1927.
As a youth Dahiru Bauchi studied the Holy Qur’an under the tutelage of his father Alhaji Usman. Eventually he learned to recite the entire Qur’an from memory as could his father.
He studied under scholars like Shaykh Tijani Usman Zangon-Bare-bari, Shaykh Abubakar Atiku and Shaykh Abdulqadir Zaria. He received the Tijjaniyyah Tariqah. His father was a Tijani muqaddam (Imam), who was granted authorization (ijāzah) for tariqa.
Dahiru Bauchi is deputy chair of the Fatwa Committee of the Supreme Council Of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in Nigeria.
Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi was detained in 2009 in Saudi Arabia by Saudi security forces while performing his pilgrimage in Mecca. The cause of the arrest was the ongoing doctrinal dispute between three major Nigerian Islamic groups, Darika, Izala and Shi’ah that broke out during Ramadan of that year.
The renowned Islamic scholar, with more than 80 children, married the daughter of the renowned 20th-century Tijani scholar Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse. Sheikh Baba Laminu Niasse of Kaolack, Senegal, officiated the marriage in Ibrahim Niasse Mosque, Senegal.
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