A well-liked Nigerian Islamic cleric, Dahiru Usman-Bauchi, is useless.
Certainly one of his college students in Bauchi confirmed the event to Radio France Worldwide (Rfi) on Wednesday.
He mentioned the cleric died on the reported age of 100 years.
Mr Dahiru Usman-Bauchi was the non secular chief of the Tijaniyyah Sufi order in Nigeria, who had many confrontations with rival Islamic sects.
He was famend for his deep data of the Quran.
Born in Nafada, Gombe State, he reportedly began finding out Islam underneath his father.
Mr Usman-Bauchi later travelled broadly to review underneath totally different students to reinforce his data of Islam in addition to the Tijaniyyah Tariqah (Sufi order).
He was a prolific creator of Islamic literature on numerous topics, together with jurisprudence and Sufism. His books will be present in Nigeria and different nations, resembling Morocco and Senegal, the place Sufism is prevalent.
Mr Usman-Bauchi was the founder and life president of the Ithad Ansarul Faelat Tijaniyat of Nigeria and a member of the Fatwa Committee of the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs (NSCIA) in Nigeria.
He reportedly had 95 youngsters and 406 grandchildren and left behind 4 wives.
