Osman Nuhu Sharubutu

His father was Nuhu Sharubutu and his mother Hajja Ayishatu Abbass. He began his education at home, taught by his father by day and his mother by night, and was then sent to Kumasi, where Abdullah Dan Tano taught him Arabic grammar, Arabic literature, Islamic jurisprudence and hadith. After his studies he devoted himself to teaching Muslim youth who wished to become Islamic thinkers and scholars, and he continued to pursue knowledge even while teaching.¹²

Sharubutu was appointed Deputy Regional Chief Imam in 1974, after discussions among tribal chiefs, Islamic scholars and religious personalities, deputising for his cousin Imam Muhammed Mukhtar Abbas, who had succeeded his own father; in 1993 he became National Chief Imam of Ghana. He is the founder of the Dr. Sheikh Osmanu Nuhu Sharubutu Education Trust Fund (SONSETFund) and of the Islamic Peace and Security Council of Ghana (IPASEC), and a member of the National Peace Council. In July 2021 he led the first Friday prayer at the Ghana National Mosque at Kanda, Accra. He is known for appeals to peace and unity in communal disputes and for an interfaith posture that led former president John Kufuor to say he deserved the Nobel Peace Prize. His wife, Hajia Rahmatu, died on 27 March 2024.¹

No article's text states his affiliation: the English article's infobox names the Tijaniyyah in a denomination field referenced to a 2019 Pulse Ghana profile — one referenced infobox value; the Arabic stub's unreferenced infobox gives his creed as Ahl al-Sunna wa-l-Jama'a and his school as Maliki, a different claim; Wikidata's religion value is Islam only; and the Urdu article's infobox is empty.¹³⁴²