At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Jurist
- Region
- Southeast Asia
- Identifiers
- Wikidata
- Review
Life in time
Place in the story
Unknown (unknown)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Summary
Haji Wan Muhammad bin Haji Abdul Samad (September 1870 – 1920), known as Wan Muhammad al-Kalantani, was a Malay Muslim scholar of Kelantan who served as the state's fourth Mufti from 1916 until his death. He was the eldest son of Tuan Tabal, one of the notable Kelantan scholars of the nineteenth century. 1 2
Life and office
He was born at the end of September 1870. When his younger brother Haji Wan Musa, the third Mufti of Kelantan, resigned the office, Wan Muhammad was appointed mufti in his place on 21 August 1916. He held the office until his death in 1920. The Kelantan Islamic Religious Council (Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Istiadat Melayu Kelantan, MAIK) maintains a biography of him among its scholar profiles, to which the Malay Wikipedia article links for further information. 1 2
Career
These posts have no recorded dates, so they are listed here in words.
- Jurist (faqih) · Also held · Undated
Sources
- Wan Muhammad — Malay Wikipedia
- Wan Muhammad — Wikidata Q12712418
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Wan Muhammad al-Kalantani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/wan-muhammad-al-kalantani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-01.