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 "label": {
  "ar": "محمد يوسف بن أحمد",
  "en": "Tok Kenali",
  "ur": "محمد یوسف بن احمد"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "عالم من كلنتن (نحو 1868–1933)، اسمه محمد يوسف بن أحمد ويُعرف بتوك كنالي. درس في كوتا بهرو ثم في مكة اثنين وعشرين عامًا، وعاد سنة 1909 فأسس مدرسته القرآنية (بوندوق كنالي) سنة 1911 ودرّس في المسجد المحمدي، وكان أول رئيس تحرير لمجلة «بنغاسوه» وعضوًا في مجلس علماء كلنتن ومجلس الشؤون الإسلامية فيها، فصار أبرز ناشر لنظام البوندوق التعليمي في شبه جزيرة الملايو.",
  "en": "Kelantan scholar (c. 1868–1933), born Muhammad Yusuf bin Ahmad and known as Tok Kenali. He studied at Kota Bharu and then for twenty-two years in Mecca, returned in 1909, founded his pondok school in 1911 and taught at the Muhammadi Mosque, was the first editor of the magazine Pengasuh and a member of Kelantan's Council of Ulama and its Islamic Religious Council, becoming the leading spreader of the pondok system of Islamic education in the Malay Peninsula.",
  "ur": "کیلنتن کے عالم (تقریباً 1868ء–1933ء)، اصل نام محمد یوسف بن احمد، جو ٹوک کنالی کے نام سے مشہور ہیں۔ انہوں نے کوتا بھارو اور پھر بائیس برس مکہ میں تعلیم حاصل کی، 1909ء میں واپس آئے، 1911ء میں اپنا پونڈوق مدرسہ قائم کیا اور محمدی مسجد میں پڑھایا، رسالے «پنگاسوہ» کے پہلے مدیر اور کیلنتن کی مجلس علماء اور مجلس امور اسلامیہ کے رکن رہے، اور جزیرہ نما ملایہ میں پونڈوق نظام تعلیم کے سب سے بڑے ناشر بنے۔"
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 "span": {
  "earliest": 1867.9992744546432,
  "latest": 1933.8842686707828
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1868~",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "debated",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Born at Kampung Kenali, Kubang Kerian, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, about 1868: the Malay article gives the year as approximate ('sekitar 1868') and pairs it with 1287H. That pairing is internally inconsistent — 1287 AH corresponds to 1870–71 CE, and the article's own portrait file is named with the years 1870–1933 — so no hijri key is carried here (the pairing fails the validator's consistency check in any case); the year is recorded as approximate and its status debated. Wikidata gives 1868 (year only). Kota Bharu has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
   "sources": [
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   "edtf": "1933-11-19",
   "hijri": "1352",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
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   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Died on Sunday 19 November 1933 at Kota Bharu, after an illness in his foot, and was buried in the cemetery now known as Kubur Tok Kenali at Kota Bharu: the Malay article, whose quoted obituary in the magazine Pengasuh (11 December 1933) pairs the death with the year 1352H, recorded as the pairing the article carries. Wikidata agrees on the Gregorian day. Kota Bharu has no place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "Tok Kenali",
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    "value": "Muhammad Yusof",
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   "note": "Born at Kampung Kenali, Kubang Kerian, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, about 1868: the Malay article gives the year as approximate ('sekitar 1868') and pairs it with 1287H. That pairing is internally inconsistent — 1287 AH corresponds to 1870–71 CE, and the article's own portrait file is named with the years 1870–1933 — so no hijri key is carried here (the pairing fails the validator's consistency check in any case); the year is recorded as approximate and its status debated. Wikidata gives 1868 (year only). Kota Bharu has no place entity, so no born_in edge is written.",
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   "edtf": "1933-11-19",
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   "note": "Died on Sunday 19 November 1933 at Kota Bharu, after an illness in his foot, and was buried in the cemetery now known as Kubur Tok Kenali at Kota Bharu: the Malay article, whose quoted obituary in the magazine Pengasuh (11 December 1933) pairs the death with the year 1352H, recorded as the pairing the article carries. Wikidata agrees on the Gregorian day. Kota Bharu has no place entity, so no died_in or buried_in edge is written.",
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    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "The Malay article's scholar infobox leaves its school (mazhab) field empty, no text in it names a school for him, and Wikidata gives Islam in general (Q432) only. His pondok formation at Kota Bharu and his twenty-two years of study in Mecca never count, and the article's description of him as a wali keramat is reputation, not a documented affiliation with any order — no text attests discipleship, initiation or membership. No school reading exists anywhere, so the value is unknown and unflagged.",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Malay Wikipedia 'Tok Kenali' (revision 6835450 of 29 April 2026) and Wikidata item Q12698227 (item revision 2528180085 of 6 August 2026), each fetched by its recorded revision id through the MediaWiki API with the returned id asserted equal before use; the QID was grounded through the Malay article's page properties, the item's only Wikipedia sitelink. Identity: the queue line 'Tok Kenali (1868–1933)' matches Muhammad Yusuf bin Ahmad of Kampung Kenali, Kota Bharu, exactly in biography and years. Existence checks by name fragments (kenali, yusuf, يوسف) across data/person, by QID and by biography found no prior record; the Yusuf-named files on file are other men. One relation is written: lived_in Mecca, which the article attests for his study years 1887–1909. No student_of edge is written: his Meccan teacher Wan Ahmad bin Muhammad Zain and his Kota Bharu teachers have no person records. No born_in, died_in or buried_in edge is written: Kota Bharu and Kubang Kerian have no place entities. No English, Arabic or Urdu Wikipedia article exists, so the English prose rests on the Malay article and the item, and the Arabic and Urdu prose are written from those sources and say so.",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "محمد يوسف بن أحمد (نحو 1868 – 19 تشرين الثاني 1933)، المعروف بتوك كنالي، عالم من كلنتن صار أبرز شخصيات نظام المدارس القرآنية (البوندوق) في شبه جزيرة الملايو. لا توجد مقالة عربية ولا إنجليزية عنه في ويكيبيديا، فتستند هذه المادة إلى المقالة الملايوية وعنصر ويكيداتا. {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms} {cite:wikidata-tok-kenali}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "تكوينه وعودته",
     "markdown": "وُلد في كامبونغ كنالي بكوبانغ كريان قرب كوتا بهرو في أسرة فلاحية، وتعلّم أولًا على جده ثم في المسجد المحمدي في كوتا بهرو. وفي سنة 1887 رحل إلى مكة ودرس فيها اثنين وعشرين عامًا، أبرز شيوخه وان أحمد بن محمد زين، وزار معه مصر سنة 1904. عاد إلى كلنتن سنة 1909 وأسس سنة 1911 مدرسته «بوندوق كنالي»، وبعد عامين صار يدرّس أيضًا في المسجد المحمدي، أكبر مراكز التعليم الديني في كلنتن حينها، وقصد طلابه من أنحاء شبه الجزيرة وسومطرة وكمبوديا وفتاني. {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مناصبه ووفاته",
     "markdown": "كان عضوًا في مجلس علماء كلنتن من 1915 حتى وفاته، ورئيسًا للتعليم الديني في الولاية، ومستشارًا في تأسيس مجلس الشؤون الإسلامية في كلنتن سنة 1915، وصار سنة 1918 أول رئيس تحرير لمجلة «بنغاسوه» لسان المجلس؛ وكلّفه المجلس أيضًا بترجمة تفسير الخازن إلى الملايوية، وهي مخطوطة فُقدت. توفي في كوتا بهرو يوم الأحد 19 تشرين الثاني 1933 ودُفن في المقبرة المعروفة اليوم بقبر توك كنالي. ومن تلاميذه صاحب معجم المرباوي محمد إدريس المرباوي ومفتيان لاحقان لكلنتن. {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "Muhammad Yusuf bin Ahmad (c. 1868 – 19 November 1933), known as Tok Kenali, was a Kelantan scholar who became the leading figure of the pondok system of Islamic education in the Malay Peninsula. There is no English Wikipedia article on him; this account rests on the Malay Wikipedia article and his Wikidata item. {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms} {cite:wikidata-tok-kenali}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Formation and return",
     "markdown": "He was born at Kampung Kenali, Kubang Kerian, near Kota Bharu, to a farming family, and learned first from his grandfather and then at the Muhammadi Mosque in Kota Bharu. In 1887 he travelled to Mecca and studied there for twenty-two years, chiefly under Wan Ahmad bin Muhammad Zain, visiting Egypt with him in 1904. He returned to Kelantan in 1909 and in 1911 founded Pondok Kenali; two years later he was also teaching at the Muhammadi Mosque, then the largest centre of religious learning in Kelantan, and students came to his school from across the Peninsula, Sumatra, Cambodia and Patani. {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Offices and death",
     "markdown": "He sat on Kelantan's Council of Ulama from 1915 until his death, chaired the state's religious education, advised on the founding of the Kelantan Islamic Religious Council in 1915, and in 1918 became the first editor of Pengasuh, the council's magazine; the council also charged him with translating al-Khazin's Qur'an commentary into Malay, a manuscript now lost. He died at Kota Bharu on Sunday 19 November 1933 and was buried in the cemetery now known as Kubur Tok Kenali. Among his pupils were the lexicographer Muhammad Idris al-Marbawi and two later muftis of Kelantan. {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "محمد یوسف بن احمد (تقریباً 1868ء – 19 نومبر 1933ء)، جو ٹوک کنالی کے نام سے مشہور ہیں، کیلنتن کے عالم تھے جو جزیرہ نما ملایہ میں پونڈوق نظام تعلیم کی سب سے نمایاں شخصیت بنے۔ ان کے بارے میں اردو یا انگریزی ویکیپیڈیا پر کوئی مضمون نہیں ہے، اس لیے یہ تحریر ملایہ مضمون اور وکی ڈیٹا پر مبنی ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms} {cite:wikidata-tok-kenali}"
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    {
     "heading": "تعلیم اور واپسی",
     "markdown": "وہ کوتا بھارو کے قریب کوبانگ کیریان کے کامپونگ کنالی میں ایک کسان گھرانے میں پیدا ہوئے، پہلے اپنے دادا سے اور پھر کوتا بھارو کی محمدی مسجد میں پڑھا۔ 1887ء میں وہ مکہ گئے اور وہاں بائیس برس تعلیم حاصل کی، ان کے نمایاں استاد وان احمد بن محمد زین تھے، اور 1904ء میں وہ ان کے ساتھ مصر بھی گئے۔ 1909ء میں کیلنتن واپس آئے اور 1911ء میں اپنا مدرسہ «پونڈوق کنالی» قائم کیا؛ دو برس بعد وہ محمدی مسجد میں بھی پڑھانے لگے، جو اس وقت کیلنتن کا سب سے بڑا دینی تعلیمی مرکز تھا، اور ان کے طلبہ جزیرہ نما، سماٹرا، کمبوڈیا اور پٹانی سے آتے تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عہدے اور وفات",
     "markdown": "وہ 1915ء سے وفات تک کیلنتن کی مجلس علماء کے رکن رہے، ریاست کی دینی تعلیم کے سربراہ رہے، 1915ء میں کیلنتن کی مجلس امور اسلامیہ کے قیام میں مشیر رہے، اور 1918ء میں مجلس کے رسالے «پنگاسوہ» کے پہلے مدیر بنے؛ مجلس نے انہیں تفسیر خازن کا ملایہ ترجمہ بھی سونپا، جس کا مخطوطہ اب گم ہے۔ وہ اتوار 19 نومبر 1933ء کو کوتا بھارو میں وفات پا گئے اور اسی قبرستان میں دفن ہوئے جو آج قبر ٹوک کنالی کہلاتا ہے۔ ان کے شاگردوں میں لغت نگار محمد ادریس المرباوی اور کیلنتن کے دو بعد کے مفتی شامل تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-tok-kenali-ms}"
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