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Syed Muhammad Naquib bin Ali bin
Abdullah bin Muhsin al-Attas was born on September 5th, 1931 in Bogor,
Java. His genealogical tree can be authentically traced over a thousand
years through the Ba’Alawi sayyids of Hadramaut and all the way back
to the Imam Hussein, the grandson of the Holy Prophet (PBUH). His earlier
illustrious ancestors include saints, scholars and savants, one of whom,
from his maternal side, was Syed Muhammad al-‘Aydarus, the teacher and
spiritual guide of Syed Abu Hafs ‘Umar ba Syaiban of Hadramaut, who initiated
one of the most prominent scholars in the Malay world, Nur al-Din al-Raniri
into the Rifa‘iyyah Order. Syed Muhammad Naquib’s mother Sharifah Raquan
al-‘Aydarus, from her maternal side, came from Bogor,
Java and was a descendant of the Sundanese royal family of Sukapura. His
paternal grandfather, Syed Abdullah bin Muhsin bin Muhammad al-Attas was a
saint (wali) from Java whose influence was not confined only to Indonesia
but extended to Arabia as well. One of his
disciples, Syed Hasan Fad‘ak was the religious advisor to Amir Faisal, the
brother of King Abdullah of Jordan, and a contemporary of the famous
Lawrence of Arabia. His paternal grandmother, Ruqayah Hanum, a Turkish lady
of aristocratic lineage, was married to Ungku Abdul Majid, the younger brother
of Sultan Abu Bakar of Johore (d. 1895), while her sister Khadijah was
married to the Sultan himself, and became the Queen of Johore. When Ungku
Abdul Majid passed away, leaving two sons, Ruqayah married Syed Abdullah
al-Attas and later gave birth to their only child, Syed Ali al-Attas, the
father of Syed Muhammad Naquib. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas is the middle
child among three siblings, the eldest being Syed Hussein who is a
distinguished sociologist and the former Vice Chancellor of the University
of Malaya while the youngest, Syed Zaid is a chemical engineer and a former
lecturer at MARA Institute of Technology. (description taken from http://www5.jaring.my/istac)
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