The Genealogy of Malacca's Kings 

 from a copy of the 



Bustanu's— Salatin. 



By E, 0. WlNSTEDT. 



This interesting and important passage was copied for the late 

 Mr. W. Barnes from a cop}' of the Bustanus-Salatin belonging, it 

 is said, to H. H. the late .Sultan of Pahang, when H. H. was still 

 Tengku Besar. Apparently it had been the intention of Mr. 

 Barnes to offer it to the Society, but death frustrated him. 



The interest of the passage lies in the light it throws on Malay- 

 history. Firstly, it gives the variant list of the kings of Singapore 

 and Malacca, to which Wilkinson drew attention on pp. 15 and 21 

 of his History, Part 1, Papers on Malay Subjects Kuala Lumpur, 

 F.M.S. 190 S. It gives the orthodox list of the Malacca royal house 

 down to the date of the Portuguese conquest and then continuing' 

 their history down to the birth of Sultan Iskandar AlaVd-din 

 Mughayat Shah II of Acheen (1636-1611) it throws light on the 

 eailier history of Pahang and Johor. 



It had been the intention of Mr. Barnes to compare this version 

 with the version of the Bustanu's-Salatin at Ley-den, but it is hard 

 for Europeans in the East to find time and opportunity for such 

 comparative work. Print our local manuscripts, when obtainable, 

 and once in print passages can easily be compared. Mr. Barnes had 

 got one variant version, the source of which I have been unable to 

 trace : its variants I have cited in foot-notes. 



The Bustanu's-Salatin was composed at Acheh by Shaikh 

 Nuru'd-din Muhammad Jilaui ibni Hasanji ibni Muhammad 

 Hamid a'r-Baniri. who also composed an ///. Iskandar Dzu'l- 

 K amain in Malay as he tells us on p. 1-1, vol. II of Wilkinson's 

 edition of the Bustanu's-Salatin: in 1634* he had translated the 

 Siratu'l-mvstakim into Malav. (Vide also Snouck Hurgronje's 

 " The Achehnese," vol. I, p. 12). After the fall of Pasai, Malacca, 

 and after the conquest of Malacca. Acheen became the centre of 

 Muhammadan religion and learning. It was Sultan Iskandar the 

 second of Acheen and Shaikh Xuru'd-din who sent the Babu'n- 

 Nikah, the Siratu'l-mustakim and a complimentary letter to the 

 Eaja of Kedah on the establishment of Islam in that country: so 

 the " Kedah Annals " tell us. 



Possibly some of the historical detail given in this passage has 

 been added by a later hand. 



Mr. E. J. Wilkinson printed 2 vols, of the Bustanu's-Salatin 

 (American Mission Press, Singapore, 1900), but most unfortunately 

 his MS. was lost before the rest, which contains the chapters on 



Jour. Straits Branch R. A. Soc, No. 81, 1920. 



