Ja'afar Mahmud Adam

Sheikh

**Ja'far Mahmud Adam**
Sheikh; Ja'far Mahmud Adam
	Ja'afar Mahmud
Title	Sheikh Ja'afar
Personal
Born	Ja'afar Mahmud Adam; February 12, 1960; Daura, Katsina State
Died	April 13, 2007; Kano
Cause of death	Assassination
Religion	Islam
Nationality	Nigeria
Denomination	Sunni and Salafi
Jurisprudence	Maliki
Movement	Malikiyya
Main interest(s)	Hadith, Tafsir and Tauheed
Muslim leader
	Influenced by Ibn Taymiyyah, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab and Abubakar Gumi;

Ja'afar Mahmud Adam (February 12, 1960 – April 13, 2007) 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 based primarily in Kano with Maiduguri as a place for his Ramadan Tafsir.^[2]

Teaching

Adam preached in Maiduguri's Indimi Mosque, which was attended by the Deputy Governor of Borno.^[3]

Sheikh Ja'afar was shot dead at his mosque during Subh prayer in the northern city of Kano in April 2007.^[4]^[5]

^ Gérard L. F. Chouin, Religion and bodycount in the Boko Haram crisis: evidence from the Nigeria Watch database, p. 214. ISBN 978-90-5448-135-5
^ Gérard L. F. Chouin, Religion and bodycount in the Boko Haram crisis: evidence from the Nigeria Watch database, p. 214. ISBN 978-90-5448-135-5
^ US Embassy, Abuja (November 4, 2009). "Nigeria: Borno State Residents Not Yet Recovered From Boko Haram Violence". Wikileaks. Retrieved August 14, 2014.
^ "Boko Haram suspected after cleric killed in Nigeria". www.thesundaily.my.
^ "Boko Haram suspected after cleric killed in Nigeria - International - World". Ahram Online.