152 BUSTANU 'S-SALATIN." 



1638. At the same time, just as in the^ Sejarah Melayu, there are 

 interpolations, and, though at the beginning of Book II the author 

 expresses the intention of writing of the kings of Acheh down to 

 Sultan Iskandar Thani (163'6-1641 A.D.), there has been added 

 the history of Sultan Inayat Shah who reigned from 1078 to 1688 

 A.D. 



Besides the Bustanus-Salatin, Shaikh Xuru'd-din ibn 'Ali ibn 

 Hasan ji ibn Muhammad a'r-Eaniri translated and wrote various 

 other works: in 1044 A.H. the Siratu'l-mustahim (still reprinted 

 and on sale in Singapore), in 1045 A.H. the Kitdb Hadith Nabi } 

 a Malay version of the Arabic J.ViiM 7-jJ^\ s\j&\ 5^j in the 



reign of Iskandar Thani the Tabyan ft ma'rifat al-adiijan and 

 the Asrar al-insan ft ma'rifat ar-roli war-raliman, in 1052 A.H. 

 (1642 A.D.) the AlMaru'l-alchirat ft alncali'l-leiamat and the 

 Jawahir al-ulum ft kaslif al-ma'lum, and in addition several works 

 directed against the heretical pantheism of Shamsu'd-din of Pasai 

 and Hamzah of Barns ( Vide van der Tuuk, " Essays on Indo- 

 China," Second Series, vol. II pp. 15-16, 49-50 and the " Catalogi " 

 of Juynboll and van Eonkel.) 



There has been some confusion (vide Snouck Hurgronje's 

 "The Achehnese" Vol. II, p. 12) of our author, who often styles 

 himself Shaikh Nuru'd-din Muhammad Jailani, with one Shaikh 

 Muhammad Jailani ibn Hasan ibn Muhammad Hamicl a'r-Eaniri, 

 who came first from Gujerat to Acheh as a teacher of logic, rhetoric 

 and jurisprudence in the reign (1577-1586) of Sultan 'Ala'ud-din 

 of Perak (or Mansur Shah, son of Sultan Ahmad of Perak), went 

 to Mecca to study mysticism and returned to Acheh in 1588, Dr. 

 Eaden Husein Jayadiningrat combats their identity by several 

 arguments. Our author in all his works describes himself as the 

 son of 'AH. In the Bustanu's-Salatin he actually mentions the time 

 of the coming of his copatriot and describes him as the son of 

 Hassan. Furthermore the dates of the two men differ by half a 

 century. The Javanese scholar surmises that the earlier missionary 

 was an older relative of the author of the Bustan. 



Jour. Strains Branck 



