Kabiru Gombe

محمد كبير هارونا

Nigerian scholar and preacher born at Yamaltu/Deba in Gombe State. He began in the youth first-aid group of the Izala Society, studied in Saudi Arabia, and has been the society's National Secretary General since December 2011. He is known for his Ramadan tafsir and preaching tours across Nigeria and abroad, and for his criticism of Sufism and Shi'ism.

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Roles
Scholar · Preacher
Region
West Africa & Sahel
Identifiers
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    Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.

    Preaching

    Gombe delivers an annual Ramadan tafsir and preaches across Nigeria, neighbouring countries and the United Kingdom, with sermons often addressing family and women's affairs 1. He is a prominent critic of what Salafism counts as innovation, with a strong stance against Sufism — notably the Tijaniyya — and against Shi'ism; the article names Malik ibn Anas and Abubakar Gumi among his influences 1. The sources used differ on his birth year: the English infobox and Wikidata give 1 June 1969, the Hausa article gives no date at all, and this lane's queue had said 1968; the data record keeps 1969 with the weakness stated 1 2.

    Affiliation, as the sources attest it

    The English article's text places the man inside the Izala movement and calls the society "the largest Salafiyyah movement in Nigeria" — a movement affiliation, not the naming of a school. A school appears only inside one structured family: the uncited infobox gives his denomination as Sunni and his jurisprudence as Maliki, and Wikidata records Islam only 1 2. The museum's data record therefore leaves his school unknown, flagged for the founder, with the Maliki infobox reading preserved in the record's note.

    Sources

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    Sources

    1. Kabiru Gombe — English Wikipedia
    2. Kabiru Gombe — Wikidata Q91194186
    Cite this page

    islam.museum contributors. “Kabiru Gombe”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/kabiru-gombe/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-26.

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