Tokku Paloh, from a very young age, received his early education from his father, Sayyid Muhammad al-`Aydarus in various fields of religious knowledge in order to prepare him to becoming a religious scholar.
He was being educated by some distinguished religious scholars from the Malay Archipelago such as Haji Wan Abd Allah bin Muhammad al-Amin and also Shaykh `Abd al-Qadir Bukit Bayas. He took a long time to acquire the religious knowledge in his homeland, up to 55 years.
Around 1872 Tok Ku Paloh later travelled and pursued knowledge in the areas of tafsir, hadith, tawhid and tasawwuf in the Holy land of Mecca and was tutored by many famous Muslim scholars such as Sayyid Ahmad Zayn al-Dahlan, Sayyid Salih al-Zawawi, Sayyid Abdullah al-Zawawi and also Syeikh Muhammad Mazhar al-Ahmadi. He returned to his homeland in 1882.
Besides being a teacher he was also well-known as a sufi. He also became the teacher to the sultan of Terengganu between 1298 –1338 H ( 881 –1919 Ad ). Tokku Paloh is the author of Macarij al-lahfan ila haqa ́iq al-cirfan.
He departed in 1917 (1335H) and was buried at Kampong Paloh in Kuala Terengganu (Alwi, 2007). In fact, the former was much younger than the latter.
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