A professor of Arabic in the Lagos State University (LASU) Muhammad Ya’qub has died in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Ya’qub was a language consultant, translator and applied linguist in the Department of Foreign Languages.
He died on March 24 in Mecca while on Lesser Hajj with his wife, Professor Jemilat Yakub.
Ya’qub was buried in Saudi Arabia on March 26 according to Islamic rites.
Lagos district of The Companion, an association of Muslim men in business and the professions, has expressed sadness over Ya’qub’s death.
In a statement signed on Friday by the group’s spokesman Tajudeen Balogun, The Companion expressed shock at the news, thanking Allah for making the late academic lived a fulfilled life with respect to serving Allah and humanity.
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Balogun stressed that Ya’qub would be specially remembered for his modest lifestyle, usual eagerness to struggle on the path of Allah and serving the organisation in different capacities he was called upon and, ultimately, for raising a complete pious Islamic family, while he was alive.
The Companion, in the statement, added that the scholar from Kwara State, will be dearly missed for his useful contributions at the group’s intellectual and solution-finding engagements.
Ya’qub served as the Noib Amir of the Lagos district between 2018 and 2022.
He was the co-founder of the group’s Alimosho Usrah zone, which has been in existence for over 12 years.
