Biography of late sheikh mahmud gumiho

Sheikh Abubakar Gummi: 28 Years After

By

Garba A. Isa

Kofararewa2018@gmail.com

9^th September 2020

Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gummi, the well respected Kaduna based Islamic scholar died 28 years ago on Friday September 11 1992 in a London hospital.

During his eventful scholarly lifetime, the Sheikh was a rallying figure to the Muslim Community or Ummah especially during some of its most trying moments. His life was an embodiment of worship to Allah the Most High and a service to humanity.

He was not obsessed with materialism in a world awash with craze for easy money, a cancer which afflicts even some of the religious leaders in the country.

When Gummi died at the age of 70 years in 1992, many described his death as “the end of an era".

John Paden (1986) recalled that during the late Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello's first pilgrimage  to Mecca in 1955, Gummi served as translator for the S