Biography of KH. Muhammad Hasyim Asy'ari

Table of Contents Profile KH. Muhammad Hasyim Asy'ari

1.        Life and Family History
1.1      Born
1.2      Passed Away
1.3      Family History

2.       Sanad Knowledge and Education
2.1     Wandering to Gain Knowledge
2.2     His Masters

3.        Established Pesantren Tebuireng

4.       His Successor
4.1     His Children
4.2     His Diciples

5.       His Merits and Works
5.1     His Merits
5.2     His Works

6.       Exemplary Stories
6.1     When Kiai Hasyim and Kiai Kholil Struggle to become Pesantren student
6.2     Taking his Master's Ring from the Toilet Hole

Life and Family History

1.1 Born

KH. Mohammad Hasyim Asy'ari was born on April 10, 1875 (24 Dzulqaidah 1287H). Hasyim is the third son of 11 children from the couple KH. Asy'ari, the leader of the Pesantren Keras, Jombang and Nyai Halimah.

From his father's lineage, KH. Hasyim Asy'ari has a lineage up to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. His lineage is as follows:

1. Husayn bin Ali
2. Ali Zainal Abidin
3. Muhammad al-Baqir
4. Ja'far ash-Sadiq
5. Ali al-Uraidhi
6. Muhammad an-Naqib
7. Isa ar-Rumi
8. Ahmad al-Muhajir
9. Ubaidullah
10. Alwi Awwal
11. Muhammad Sahibus Saumiah
12. Alwi ats-Tsani
13. Ali Khali' Qasam
14. Muhammad Shahib Mirbath
15. Alwi Ammi al-Faqih
16. Abdul Malik (Ahmad Khan)
17. Abdullah (al-Azhamat) Khan
18. Ahmad Shah Jalal (Jalaluddin Khan)
19. Jamaluddin Akbar al-Husaini (Maulana Akbar)
20. Maulana Ishaq
21. 'Ainul Yaqin (Sunan Giri)
22. Abdurrohman / Jaka Tingkir (Sultan Pajang)
23. Abdul Halim (Prince of Benawa)
24. Abdurrohman (Prince Samhud Bagda)
25. Abdul Halim
26. Abdul Wahid
27. Abu Sarwan
28. KH. Ash'ari (Jombang)
29. KH. Hasyim Asy'ari (Jombang)

1.2 Passed Away

KH. Hasyim Asy'ari died on July 25, 1947. He was buried in Tebu Ireng, Jombang and is one of the National Heroes of Indonesia.

1.3 Family History

KH. Hasyim Asy'ari spent his single life by marrying the daughter of Kiai Ya'qub Sidoarjo, Nyai Khodijah. The marriage with Nyai Khodijah did not longer, because when Kiai Hasim Asy'ari was studying in Mecca, his wife died in 1901.

After his first wife died, then Kiai Hasyim remarried to Nyai Nafiqoh the daughter of Kiai Ilyas, the caretaker of the Pesantren Sewulan Madiun. Their marriage brought some children, Kiai Hasyim and Nyai Nafiqoh were blessed with 12 children. The names of the sons and daughters of Kiai Hasyim are as follows:

1. Hannah
2. Khoiriyah
3. Aisyah
4. Azzah
5. Abdul Wahid Hasyim
6. Abdul Hakim (Abdul Kholik)
7. Abdul Karim
8. Ubaidillah
9. Mashuroh
10. Muhammad Yusuf

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