Muhammad Amrullah
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Muhammad Amrullah Tuanku Muhammad Abdullah Saleh (West Sumatra
West Sumatra
West Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It lies on the west coast of the island Sumatra. It borders the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau and Jambi to the east, and Bengkulu to the southeast. It includes the Mentawai Islands off the coast...

, 1840 - West Sumatra, 1909) or known as Tuanku Kisa-i, a great scholar of Minangkabau who gave birth to two major figures in the Malay world. One man is his own son, Abdul Karim Amrullah
Abdul Karim Amrullah
Abdul Karim Amrullah known as Haji Rasul was prominet Muslim reformer who led reformation of Islam in Sumatra.- Personal life :Haji Rasul was born in Sungai Batang, Maninjau, West Sumatra on February 10, 1879. His father was Muslim ulema, Syekh Muhammad Amarullah Tuanku Kisai and his mother Andung...

, and another is his grandson, Hamka
Hamka
Haji Abdul Malik Karim Amrullah, known as Hamka was a prominent Indonesian author, ulema and politician. His father, syekh Abdul Karim Amrullah, known as Haji Rasul, led and inspired the reform movement in Sumatra upon his arrival from the holy land Mecca in 1906...

. His grandfather was Tuanku Nan Tuo, one of the prime mover the Padri
Padri
Padri may refer to:* Padri , Konkani language film* Faredoon Driver, one of Meher Baba's close mandali* Islamist reformists who fought against Minangkabau traditionalists in the Padri War...

 in West Sumatra.

Muhammad Amrullah one of his followers Naqshbandi
Naqshbandi
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. Amrullah listed as one of Kaum Tua movement. His child, Abdul Karim Amrullah, was a pioneer and major figure in the struggle, including Kaum Muda. Abdul Karim Amrullah reject the Naqshbandi deeds, while rejecting the bond 'taqlid', and more likely the thought Muhammad Abduh
Muhammad Abduh
Muhammad Abduh was an Egyptian jurist, religious scholar and liberal reformer, regarded as the founder of Islamic Modernism...

. Amrullah have eight times the marriage, and the number of all the children are 46 people.

Origin

His father, Tuanku Abdullah Saleh who the title Tuanku Sheikh Guguk Katur. He was a disciple of Abdullah Arif or known as Tuanku Nan Tuo in Koto Tuo, Agam
Agam
Agam may refer to:* Āgama , a collection scriptures* Jain Agamas, texts of Jainism* Agam Regency, a regency of West Sumatra, Indonesia* Yaacov Agam, an Israeli artist* AGAM, the Israeli Defence Forces Directorate of Operations- See also :...

.

Tuanku Abdullah Saleh was a great scholar's attention on the science and memorized the book of Hikam Sufism of Ibn 'Athaillah. He was a Minangkabau custom experts, so that not only matters of religion that prompted people to him, even the custom affairs. Imam al-Ghazali
Al-Ghazali
Abu Hāmed Mohammad ibn Mohammad al-Ghazzālī , known as Algazel to the western medieval world, born and died in Tus, in the Khorasan province of Persia was a Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic....

 on khalawat highly consumed by him. His teacher, Tuanku Nan Tuo, interested him and after his daughter Siti Saerah a teenage girl, he take Tuanku Abdullah Saleh as son-in law.

Education

He earned his early education from his own grandfather and grandmother in the tradition of the Minangkabau. Later he studied religion from his grandfather Sheikh Tuanku Pariaman in Koto Tuo. From her grandmother, Muhammad Amrullah learn nahwu, Sharaf, Manthiq, Ma'ani, Tafseer and Fiqh.

In Mecca
Mecca
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 he studied to Sayid Zaini Dahlan, a famous scholar of Mecca, and learn also to Sheikh Mohammed Hasbullah and several other scholars. He also studied with Ahmad Khatib
Ahmad Khatib
Shaikh Ahmad Khatib was a Minangkabau Indonesian Islamic teacher. He was born in Koto Gadang, Agam Regency, West Sumatra on 6 Dzulhijjah 1276 H and died in Mecca on 8 Jumadil Awal 1334 H . He served as the head of the Shafi'i school of law at the mosque of Mecca...

 and Tahir Jalaluddin
Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin
Sheikh Tahir Jalaluddin was a famous Muslim ulama in Southeast Asia.He became the editor for Al-Imam publication which was published in Singapore between 1906 and 1908....

. At the age of 26, Muhammad Amrullah have been given a diploma and a teaching assignment by his grandfather, Abdullah Arif or Tuanku Nan Tuo in the village. He taught are the science of Tafsir, Fiqh, Sufi, and the sciences tools, namely nahwu, Sharaf, Manthiq, Ma'ani, Bayan, Badi '.

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