Intertextuality – one of the seven standards of textuality, according to the proposals of De Beaugrande and Dressier- is the intersection within the text of an expression taken from other texts A poet who studies poetry for several years  does not only becomes acquainted with patterns and structures that are repeated in others, but also adopts them , advertently or otherwise in his output .As the  holy  Quran and Hadith are repertoires of religious science and spiritual knowledge, muslims are expected to draw from them not only to fortify their spiritual entity but also to strengthen their linguistic dexterity and invigorate their literary aesthetics. Little wonder that we see leaders,orators,literati and belletrists  right from the inchoate Islam and throughout the successive literary periods incorporating and embedding parts of  the Quran in their output, be it poetry or prose. This phenomenon also featured prominently in Nigerian autochtonous literery productions right from the era of Usman Dan Fodiyo till the present day. This paper is set to investigate religious intertextuality in the selected samples of literary outpours of  two prominent religious icons in south west Nigeria.