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  "ar": "وان محمد الكلنتني",
  "en": "Wan Muhammad al-Kalantani",
  "ur": "وان محمد الکلنتانی"
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  "ar": "عالم مسلم ملايوي من كلنتن، وُلد في نهاية سبتمبر 1870، وهو الابن الأكبر لتوان تابال، وعُيّن مفتيًا رابعًا لكلنتن في 21 أغسطس 1916 خلفًا لأخيه الأصغر الحاج وان موسى، وبقي في المنصب حتى وفاته سنة 1920.",
  "en": "Malay Muslim scholar of Kelantan, born at the end of September 1870, the eldest son of Tuan Tabal. He was appointed the fourth Mufti of Kelantan on 21 August 1916, succeeding his younger brother Haji Wan Musa, and held the office until his death in 1920.",
  "ur": "کلنتن کے ملای مسلمان عالم، جو ستمبر 1870 کے آخر میں پیدا ہوئے اور توان تابال کے بڑے بیٹے تھے۔ انھیں 21 اگست 1916 کو کلنتن کا چوتھا مفتی مقرر کیا گیا، اپنے چھوٹے بھائی حاجی وان موسیٰ کے جانشین کے طور پر، اور وہ 1920 میں وفات تک اس عہدے پر رہے۔"
 },
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  "earliest": 1870.6659958794498,
  "latest": 1920.999678295895
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  "start": {
   "edtf": "1870-09",
   "hijri": "1287",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The Malay Wikipedia article states he was born at the end of September 1870, the eldest son of Tuan Tabal; Wikidata gives the year 1870 only. The Hijri year (1287) is a tabular conversion. He was born in Kelantan, but Kelantan has no place entity here, so no born_in relation is written.",
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   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "1920",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Year only, from Malay Wikipedia and Wikidata. No Hijri year is recorded because a bare Gregorian year spans two Hijri years (1338–1339).",
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   ]
  }
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  "names": [
   {
    "value": "وان محمد بن الحاج عبد الصمد",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Haji Wan Muhammad bin Haji Abdul Samad",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "Wan Muhammad Abdul Samad",
    "kind": "alternate"
   },
   {
    "value": "al-Kalantani",
    "kind": "nisba"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "scholar",
   "jurist"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1870-09",
   "hijri": "1287",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "month",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The Malay Wikipedia article states he was born at the end of September 1870, the eldest son of Tuan Tabal; Wikidata gives the year 1870 only. The Hijri year (1287) is a tabular conversion. He was born in Kelantan, but Kelantan has no place entity here, so no born_in relation is written.",
   "sources": [
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   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "1920",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": false,
   "note": "Year only, from Malay Wikipedia and Wikidata. No Hijri year is recorded because a bare Gregorian year spans two Hijri years (1338–1339).",
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    "source/wikidata-wan-muhammad"
   ]
  },
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "He held the office of Mufti of Kelantan (1916–1920), the headship of the state's Sunni religious establishment. Office and headship never count as personal faith attestation (the founder's re-review of 1 Nov 2026 restored that rule expressly), and no source read names a legal school or even the branch for him personally — Kelantan's fatwas are bound to the Shafi'i school by state enactment, but that institutional rule is not a personal attestation. The value therefore stays unknown, with the office recorded here as fact, not evidence.",
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    ]
   }
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  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q12712418"
  },
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  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Founder build ruling of 1 Nov 2026 (rulings packet #3, Part 3): the queue row 'Sheikh Muhammad al-Kalantan — 1870–1940' was built as the documented man it points to, Wan Muhammad al-Kalantani (1870–1920), Mufti of Kelantan — the birth year matches the queue, the death year is corrected from 1940 to 1920. Researched from Malay Wikipedia (rev. 6365235) and Wikidata Q12712418 (item rev. 2451862595, re-asserted on a second live query), checked 1 Nov 2026. His father Tuan Tabal and his brother Haji Wan Musa have no records here, so no family relations are written.",
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   "review": "published",
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    "job": "job/faqih",
    "kind": "secondary",
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "bootstrap from roles, 1 Nov 2026 merge map; dates, places and kind to be read in the Phase 3 sweep",
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "الحاج وان محمد بن الحاج عبد الصمد (سبتمبر 1870 – 1920)، المعروف بوان محمد الكلنتني، عالم مسلم ملايوي من كلنتن، تولّى منصب مفتي الولاية الرابع من سنة 1916 حتى وفاته. وهو الابن الأكبر لتوان تابال، أحد علماء كلنتن المعروفين في القرن التاسع عشر. {cite:wikipedia-wan-muhammad-ms} {cite:wikidata-wan-muhammad}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "حياته ومنصبه",
     "markdown": "وُلد في نهاية سبتمبر 1870. وحين استقال أخوه الأصغر الحاج وان موسى، مفتي كلنتن الثالث، من منصبه، عُيّن وان محمد مفتيًا خلفًا له في 21 أغسطس 1916، وبقي في المنصب حتى وفاته سنة 1920. ويحتفظ مجلس الشؤون الإسلامية والعادات الملايوية في كلنتن بسيرة له ضمن ملفات علمائه، تحيل إليها مقالة ويكيبيديا الملايوية لمزيد من المعلومات. {cite:wikipedia-wan-muhammad-ms} {cite:wikidata-wan-muhammad}"
    }
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   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/wan-muhammad-al-kalantani",
    "lang": "ar",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Summary",
     "markdown": "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. {cite:wikipedia-wan-muhammad-ms} {cite:wikidata-wan-muhammad}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Life and office",
     "markdown": "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. {cite:wikipedia-wan-muhammad-ms} {cite:wikidata-wan-muhammad}"
    }
   ],
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    "lang": "en",
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   },
   "updated": "2026-11-01"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "حاجی وان محمد بن حاجی عبد الصمد (ستمبر 1870 – 1920)، جو وان محمد الکلنتانی کے نام سے معروف ہیں، کلنتن کے ملای مسلمان عالم تھے جنھوں نے 1916 سے اپنی وفات تک ریاست کے چوتھے مفتی کی حیثیت سے خدمات انجام دیں۔ وہ توان تابال کے بڑے بیٹے تھے، جو انیسویں صدی کے کلنتن کے معروف علما میں سے تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-wan-muhammad-ms} {cite:wikidata-wan-muhammad}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "زندگی اور عہدہ",
     "markdown": "وہ ستمبر 1870 کے آخر میں پیدا ہوئے۔ جب ان کے چھوٹے بھائی حاجی وان موسیٰ، کلنتن کے تیسرے مفتی، نے عہدے سے استعفا دیا تو وان محمد کو 21 اگست 1916 کو ان کا جانشین مقرر کیا گیا، اور وہ 1920 میں وفات تک اس عہدے پر رہے۔ کلنتن کی مجلسِ امورِ اسلامیہ ان کی سوانح اپنے علما کے پروفائلز میں محفوظ رکھتی ہے، جس کا حوالہ ملای ویکیپیڈیا کا مضمون مزید معلومات کے لیے دیتا ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-wan-muhammad-ms} {cite:wikidata-wan-muhammad}"
    }
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