List of Contents

1     Life story and Family
1.1  Born
1.2  Family History
1.3  Passed away

2     Sanad of Knowledge and Education
2.1   Wandering for Knowledge
2.2   His Masters

3      His Successors
3.1   His Children
3.2   His Students

4      His Career and Works
4.1   His Career
4.2   His Works

5      Founders of Tariqah Qadiriyah Naqshbandiyah

6.     Reference

7.     Chart Geneology

1. Life story and Family

1.1  Born

Sheikh Ahmad Khatib Sambas was born in the month of Shafar 1217 or 1803 AD, in the Dagang Village area, Sambas, West Kalimantan Province. He is the son of Abdul Ghaffar bin Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Jalaluddin.

The name Sambas is a ratio or taken from the name of a place/city located on the north coast, West Kalimantan. So that his name which was originally Ahmad Khatib was later added to Ahmad Khatib Sambas.

1.2  Family History
 
In 1820 AD, Sheikh Ahmad Khatib Sambas went to the holy land to continue his education by studying with the scholars in Mecca. From here he married an Arab woman of Malay descent and settled in Mecca. The fruit of his marriage, he was blessed with 3 children, including:
       1. Syekh Yahya
       2. Siti Khadijah
       3. Syekh Abdul Gaffar

1.3  Passed away
 
Sheikh Ahmad Khatib Sambas passed away in Mecca in 1289 H coincided in 1875 AD at the age of 72 years. Regarding his death, there are some differences regarding the year of his death, because some say 1872 AD and some say 1875 AD, but the article here takes the source from the book "Development of Sufism and its figures in the archipelago".

2. Sanad of Knowledge and Education

2.1  Wandering for Knowledge

Since childhood, Sheikh Ahmad Khatib Sambas was raised by his uncle who was known to be very pious and sane. He spent his youth studying religious sciences, he studied from one teacher to another in the Sambas kingdom area. One of his teachers who was famous in the area was, H. Nuruddin Mustafa, Imam of the Jami' Mosque of the Sultanate of Sambas.

Sheikh Ahmad Khatib Sambas in his teens went to Mecca with his uncle to study religion there. Long story short, because of his intelligence the study of science that should have been taken in 30 years, but by Sheikh Ahmad Khatib Sambas in 3 years has been completed.

Seeing this fact, the teacher, Sheikh Syamsuddin, before he passed away, appointed him as "Shaykh Mursyid Kamil Mukammil within the Tariqat Qadiriyah Wan Naqsabandiyah", which is a combination of the two tariqats, namely Qadiriyah and Naqsabandiyah.

2.2  His Masters

His teachers while studying for knowledge were:

            1. H. Nuruddin Mustafa, Imam of Jami Mosque 'Sambas Sultanate
            2. Sheikh Muhammad Arsyad Al B

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