Ja'afar Mahmud Adam

Sheikh Ja'afar Mahmud Adam was a Nigerian Salafist Islamic scholar and member of Nigeria's Jama’at Izalat al Bid’a Wa Iqamat as Sunna, a religio-political organisation with headquarters in Abuja. He lived primarily in Kano while he went to Maiduguri for his Annual Ramadan Tafsir. He studied at the Islamic University of Madinah and was influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Abubakar Gumi. He preached in Maiduguri's Indimi Mosque, which was attended by the Deputy Governor of Borno. He was known for his steadfastness to the traditions of prophet Muhammad and his translation of the Quran into Hausa language. He also taught various Islamic books such as Kitab at-Tawhid, Siffat As-Salat An-Nabi, Umdatul Ahkam, Riyad as-Salihin, and Usul as-Salasa. He was assassinated in his mosque during Subh prayer in the northern city of Kano in April 2007. Opinions were split at that time regarding the perpetrators of the crime. While some claim that Boko Haram, an extremist organisation, executed the sheikh, many others suggested that Mr. Shekarau, the governor of Kano at the time, may have been responsible because the cleric was one of his major critics.