Dahiru Bauchi

His father, Alhaji Usman, was a Tijani muqaddam who held ijazah in the order, and Bauchi memorised the Qur'an under him. He then studied under Shaykh Tijani Usman Zangon-Bare-bari, Shaykh Abubakar Atiku and Shaykh Abdulqadir Zaria. The English article states in its text that he received the Tijaniyya tariqa and that he was part of the Tijaniyya Sufi group; its infobox gives his denomination as "Sunni, Sufi", his jurisprudence as Maliki and his movement as Tijaniyya, while Wikidata's religion value is Islam only.¹²

Bauchi taught tafsir at Bauchi for decades and became deputy chair of the Fatwa Committee of Nigeria's Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs. During the Hajj of 2009 he was detained by the Saudi security forces amid the doctrinal dispute between the Darika, the Izala and the Shi'a in Nigeria, and after the Zaria massacre of 2015 he blamed the authorities for it. He married a daughter of Ibrahim Niass, the marriage officiated by Baba Laminu Niasse of Kaolack, and had more than eighty children.¹

He died at home after a prolonged illness in the early hours of 26 November 2025, aged 98, as the English article reports citing the Daily Post, and as Wikidata confirms.¹²