Muhammad Auwal Albani Zaria

Muhammad Auwal Adam also known as Albani Zaria was a Nigerian Islamic scholar, and futurist who specialized in the field of Hadith and Fiqh. Islamic Law, mass communication, telecommunications engineering and ICT. He was a prominent Islamic scholar and the leader of the Salafi movement in Nigeria. He was a tailor at his earlier stage of life of which he usually called himself. He was the first scholar to ascribe the word "Salafiyah" to the generation of scholars and students of Islamic denomination in Nigeria. Albani was considered by many contemporary Nigerian scholars as the greatest Salafi scholar in Nigeria.