Wazirin Kano Dies At 88

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A Kano-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Isah Waziri, who held the exalted traditional title of “Wazirin Kano”, is dead.

He passed on yesterday during a brief illness at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital and was buried according to Islamic rites. The funeral prayer for the octogenarian was held at the Galadanchi Mosque at Kano Emir’s palace ground (Kofar Kudu) and was buried at Gidan Gona cemetery. He is survived by three wives and 22 children.

Until his death, Waziri served as Sharia Court judge, school teacher, imam and “Wazirin Kano”, a senior adviser to Kano emir.

At the funeral prayers, the Imam of Kofar Mata Mosque, Ustaz Muhammad Nasir Adam, described Isa Waziri’s death as painful because “a prominent scholar has gone”.

Another Islamic scholar, Ustaz Tijjani Bala Kalarawi, said that Isa Waziri died at a time the Muslim community needs his teaching for unity in Islam.

A close associate of the deceased, Alhaji Kabiru Usman Sanka, prayed Almighty Allah to give him eternal rest.

The deceased was the Imam of the Murtala Muhammed Jummat Mosque and became the Chief Imam of Kano and Wazirin Kano.

The late Waziri was born in 1925 to the family of Muhammed Gidado and attended the Judicial School, Kano, Kano Law School and Al-Azhar University, Egypt. He also got Arabic and Qur’anic education from his father before he took on tafsir (Qur’anic translation) at Zakirai in Gezawa local government area. He worked in the Kano State judiciary as a clerk and registrar.

After leaving government, he became the Imam of the Murtala Muhammed Mosque.