Sheikh Abdulqodir Kamaludeen Al-Adaby Is Dead

Popular Islamic cleric, Sheikh Abdulqodir Kamaludeen Al-Adaby, is dead.

Naija News reports that the Kwara-born cleric died in Ilorin on Friday at the age of 82 after a brief illness.

It was gathered that the revered Islamic scholar, the Khalifatul Adabiyyah Worldwide,  had been ill for about two weeks before he passed away shortly before the Jumu’ah prayer on Friday.

His students said the illness was age-related.

The cleric was the son of the foremost Islamic scholar, Sheikh Muhammad Kamalud-deen.

The Emir of Ilorin and Chairman of the Kwara State Traditional Rulers Council, Mai-Martaba Alhaji (Dr.) Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, has mourned the passing of the Khalifatul Adabiyyah Worldwide.

The deceased, who was the eldest surviving son of Sheikh (Dr.) Muhammad Kamaludeen Al-Adaby, the late 1st Grand Mufti of Ilorin, died on Friday in Ilorin.

Alhaji Sulu-Gambari, in a condolence message issued by his spokesman, Abdulazeez Arowona, described the “incident as a colossal loss to the people of Ilorin Emirate and humanity in general.”

News of his death sparked grief across the Ilorin Emirate, with political leaders, clerics and followers of the Ansarul Islam movement paying tributes to his life and service to Islam.