1813 - 1859 H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah I ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad ‘Ali Shah [al-Marhum Kampung Masjid], Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of the State of Asahan. b. 1806, educ. privately. Proclaimed by his uncle, Tengku Tua and Tengku Biyung Kechil, on the death of his father, 1813. Asserted his independence from Aceh sometime during the middle of the nineteenth century. Assumed the title of Sri Paduka Tuanku al-Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, and recognised as such by the British and Dutch authorities. m. (first) Y.M. Tengku Sulung (b. ca. 1815), daughter of his uncle, Y.A.M. Tengku Tua, of Bedagai, by his wife, a daughter of the Raja of Panai. m. (second) Tuan Telaha [Tuan Trus], daughter of a nephew of the Batak Raja of Buntu Panai. He d. at Si Rantau, 10th February 1859 (bur. there at the Kampung Masjid), having had issue, five sons and four daughters by his first wife, and two sons and one daughter by his second:
1) Y.A.M. Tengku Ahmad Shah, who succeeded as H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Ahmad Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Asahan (s/o Tengku Sulung) – see below.
2) Y.A.M. Tengku Amir ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, Tengku Pangeran Besar Muda. b. 1840 (s/o Tengku Sulung). Exiled to Ambon, 1865. m. (first) a daughter of Guru Babiat, Raja of Duluk. m. (second) January 1865 (nikah), Y.A.M. Tengku Andak binti Tuanku Sutan Bidar Alam Shah, daughter of Y.T.M. Tuanku Sutan Bidar Alam Shah II, Raja of Bila. He d. 1913 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, three sons and one daughter:
a) Y.M. Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali bin Tengku Amir, Tengku Mantri. He had issue, four sons and five daughters:
i) Y.M. Tengku Mahmud bin Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, five daughters:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Jobah binti Tengku Mahmud.
(2) Y.M. Tengku Maryam binti Tengku Mahmud.
(3) Y.M. Tengku Sharifah binti Tengku Mahmud.
(4) Y.M. Tengku Fatimah binti Tengku Mahmud.
(5) Y.M. Tengku Maimun binti Tengku Mahmud.
ii) Y.M. Tengku Bahman bin Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah) , having had issue, an only daughter:
(b) Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman bin Tengku Wahid ud-din.
(a) Y.M. Tengku Nina binti Tengku Wahid ud-din.
(2) Y.M. Tengku Muhammad Idris bin Tengku Adenan. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah).
(3) Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman bin Tengku Adenan.
(4) Y.M. Tengku Bahar ud-din bin Tengku Adenan. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah).
(5) Y.M. Tengku Putih bin Tengku Adenan. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah).
(6) Y.M. Tengku Latifa Hanum binti Tengku Adenan. She was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of her family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah).
(7) Y.M. Tengku Hadiyah binti Tengku Adenan.
(8) Y.M. Tengku Enon binti Tengku Adenan.
iv) Y.M. Tengku Shahman bin Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, three sons and three daughters:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Sulaiman bin Tengku Shahman.
(2) Y.M. Tengku Ahmad Azim bin Tengku Shahman.
(3) Y.M. Tengku Idham bin Tengku Shahman.
(1) Y.M. Tengku Aliyah binti Tengku Shahman.
(2) Y.M. Tengku Bayaziah binti Tengku Shahman.
(3) Y.M. Tengku Khairani binti Tengku Shahman.
i) Y.M. Tengku Sairah binti Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali.
ii) Y.M. Tengku Masbah binti Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali.
iii) Y.M. Tengku Mashuri binti Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali.
iv) Y.M. Tengku Mardiah binti Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali.
v) Y.M. Tengku Elok binti Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali.
b) Y.M. Tengku Muhammad Ishaq bin Tengku Amir.
c) Y.M. Tengku Haji Ahmad bin Tengku Amir. DH of Masihi. He had issue:
i) Y.M. Tengku Zulkarnain bin Tengku Haji Ahmad, educ. Univ of Leiden (Indische Jurist).
a) Y.M. Tengku Sahmah binti Tengku Amir.
3) Y.A.M. Tengku Muhammad ‘Adil ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah [Tengku Babul]. b. at Tanjung Balai, 1840 (s/o Tengku Sulung), educ. privately. Appointed as Heir Apparent with the title of Raja Muda. Exiled to Riau, 1865. m. (first) 1861, Encik Sri Bulan (b. ca. 1840), daughter of the Panglima Perang. m. (second) Encik Kadariah, a lady from Palembang. m. (third) Encik … m. (fourth) at Cianjar, Java, ca. 1892, Radin Ayu Sariah (b. at Cianjar, ca.1870; d. 24th January 1925), a Sundanese lady. m. (fifth) Daeng …, a Bugis lady. He d. 1908, having had issue, eight sons and five daughters:
a) Y.M. Tengku Ngah Tanjung, who succeeded as H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah II ibni al-Marhum Tengku Muhammad ‘Adil, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Asahan (s/o Sri Bulan) – see below.
b) Y.M. Tengku Haji Alang Yahya bin Tengku Muhammad ‘Adil. b. at Tanjung Balai, before 15th June 1867 (s/o Sri Bulan). Regent for his nephew with the title of Sri Paduka Tengku Regent from 7th July 1915-15th June 1933. Rcvd: Knt. of the Order of the Netherlands Lion (24.8.1928), and Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (31.8.1920). m. (first) Tengku Ulong Serdang, from Palembang. m. (second) Y.M. Tengku Biong binti Tengku Alam Shah, daughter of Y.A.M. Tengku Alam Shah, Raja of Kisaran. He d. at Tanjung Balai, 22nd March 1940 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, two daughters by his first wife, and seven sons and two daughters by his second wife:
i) Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Majid Khan bin Tengku Alang Yahya (s/o Tengku Biong). DH of Tanjung Balai. m. Y.A.M. Tengku Aisha [‘Isah] binti al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah (d. 1987), younger daughter of H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah II ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad Shah, Sultan of Asahan. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, three daughters:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Khadariyah binti Tengku ‘Abdu’l Majid Khan. m. (first) Tengku ‘Ala ud-din bin Tengku Haji Bahrum (k. at Tanjung Balai, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946, and bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), son of Y.M. Tengku Haji Bahrum, of Bedagai. m. (second) Y.M. Tengku Muhammad ‘Ali.
(2) Y.M. Tengku Rawiya [Rawijah] binti Tengku ‘Abdu’l Majid Khan. m. (first) m. at the Istana Kota Raja Indra Sakti, Tanjung Balai, 9th December 1943, Y.M. Tengku Nurlain [Norlen] bin Tengku Muhammad Ishaq (k. at Tanjung Balai, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946, and bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), son of Y.A.M. Tengku Muhammad Ishaq ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, Pangeran Sri Maharaja – see below. m. (second) Y.M. Tengku Shuaib bin Tengku Nazar, son of Y.M. Tengku Nazar bin Tengku Muhammad ‘Adil – see below.
ii) Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman bin Tengku Alang Yahya (s/o Tengku Biong). He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, six sons:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Muhammad Yasir bin Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman. m. (first) Y.M. Tengku Rahima binti Tengku Mansur Shah, second daughter of Y.A.M. Tengku Mansur Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Shah, Tengku Besar, sometime Regent of Kualuh, by his wife, Y.A.M. Tengku Darjat binti al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, eldest daughter of H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah II ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad Shah, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Asahan. m. (second) Che’ Zamzam Khairani Pane, from Mandailing. m. (third) Che’ Mariani, from Padang. He has issue, eight sons and seven daughters:
(a) Y.M. Tengku Azwar bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Faizal bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(c) Y.M. Tengku Iskandar bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(d) Y.M. Tengku Badul Shah bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(e) Y.M. Tengku Ahmad Rubaini bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(f) Y.M. Tengku Heru Taib bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(g) Y.M. Tengku Salman bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(h) Y.M. Tengku Harry bin Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(a) Y.M. Tengku Karmela binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Henny binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(c) Y.M. Tengku Tita binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(d) Y.M. Tengku Zulvina binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(e) Y.M. Tengku Linda binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(f) Y.M. Tengku Wenny binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(g) Y.M. Tengku Febian binti Tengku Muhammad Yasir.
(2) Y.M. Tengku Rumshah bin Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman, Duta Amerta (cre. 17th May 1980). He has issue, two sons:
(a) Y.M. Tengku Yunus bin Tengku Rumshah.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Baddi bin Tengku Rumshah.
(3) Y.M. Tengku Muhammad Hamdan bin Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman. m. Y.M. Tengku Cah. He d. at Medan, 1996, having has issue, three sons and four daughters:
(a) Y.M. Tengku Faishah bin Tengku Muhammad Hamdan.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Fakhr ud-din bin Tengku Muhammad Hamdan.
(c) Y.M. Tengku Fadahniyar bin Tengku Muhammad Hamdan.
(a) Y.M. Tengku Farah Diba binti Tengku Muhammad Hamdan.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Fauziah binti Tengku Muhammad Hamdan.
(c) Y.M. Tengku Siti Khadija binti Tengku Hamdan. b. at Langkat Pakam, 6th April 1969. m. at Medan, 21st August 1994, Y.M. Tengku Deddy bin Tengku Haji Bustaman (b. at Medan, 1st April 1969), third son of Y.M. Tengku Haji Bustamam bin Tengku Salim, by his first wife, Y.M. Tengku Mustari Hanim binti Tengku Lukman, daughter of Y.M. Tengku Lukman bin Tengku Alang Yahya. She has issue, two sons and two daughters - see above.
(d) Y.M. Tengku Memeng Fakhria binti Tengku Muhammad Hamdan.
(4) Y.M. Tengku Amir Shah bin Tengku ‘Abdu’l Rahman, Datuk Bintara (cre. 17th May 1980). m. Y.M. Tengku Maysara. He has issue, six sons and four daughters:
(a) Y.M. Tengku Cik Khairul bin Tengku Amir Shah.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Dewashah bin Tengku Amir Shah.
(c) Y.M. Tengku Kelana bin Tengku Amir Shah.
(d) Y.M. Tengku Fadil bin Tengku Amir Shah.
(e) Y.M. Tengku Husain Shah bin Tengku Amir Shah.
(f) Y.M. Tengku Ahmad Khalil bin Tengku Amir Shah.
(a) Y.M. Tengku Fatimaputri [Mahpuri] binti Tengku Amir Shah.
iii) Y.M. Tengku Ismail bin Tengku Alang Yahya (s/o Tengku Biong). m. at Istana Kota Matsun, Medan, 8th May 1930, Y.A.M. Tengku Eri Kamala binti al-Marhum Sultan Ma’amun al-Rashid Perkasa ‘Alam Shah, daughter of H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Ma’amun al-Rashid Perkasa ‘Alam Shah ibni al-Marhum Sultan ‘Amal ud-din Mahmud Perkasa ‘Alam Shah, Sultan of Deli. He had issue, an only daughter:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Yakhmun binti Tengku Ismail. m. … She had issue, one son and three daughters.
iv) Y.M. Tengku Lukman bin Tengku Alang Yahya (s/o Tengku Biong). m. (first) Encik Siti. m. (second) Y.M. Tengku Rawiya, from Kisaran. m. (third) Encik Galuh. m. (fourth) Encik Upik. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, eight sons and three daughters:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Idham bin Tengku Lukman (s/o Encik Siti). He had issue, four sons and one daughter:
(7) Y.M. Tengku Hamlet bin Tengku Lukman (s/o Encik Galuh).
(8) Y.M. Tengku Cik bin Tengku Lukman (s/o Encik Siti). He had issue, three children, including:
(a) Y.M. Tengku David bin Tengku Cik.
(b) Y.M. Tengku Tetty binti Tengku Cik.
(1) Y.M. Tengku Ayang binti Tengku Lukman (d/o Encik Siti).
(2) Y.M. Tengku Mustari Hanim binti Tengku Lukman. b. at Tanjung Balai, 1944 (d/o Encik Galuh). m. Y.M. Tengku Bustamam bin Tengku Salim, son of Y.M. Tengku Salim bin Tengku Uwuk Ibrahim. She d. from a heart attack, at Medan, 11th February 1992, having had issue, two sons – see below.
(3) Y.M. Tengku Khalijah binti Tengku Lukman
(4) Y.M. Tengku Zawiyah binti Tengku Lukman.
(5) Y.M. Tengku Maimunah binti Tengku Lukman (d/o Encik Upik).
(6) Y.M. Tengku Hasnah binti Tengku Lukman.
v) Y.M. Tengku Shahmenan bin Tengku Alang Yahya (s/o Tengku Biong). m. Y.A.M. Tengku Kamila binti al-Marhum Tuanku Muhammad Shah al-Haj, second daughter of H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Muhammad Shah al-Haj ibni al-Marhum Tuanku ‘Abdu’llah Ni’matu’llah Shah al-Haj, Raja and Yang di-Pertuan of Kualuh and Leidong. He had issue, six sons and one daughter:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Ulong Yahya bin Tengku Shamenan.
(2) Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Hamid bin Tengku Shamenan.
(3) Y.M. Tengku Anwar Bey bin Tengku Shamenan. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, one son and two daughters:
vi) Y.M. Tengku Haji Husain bin Tengku Alang Yahya (s/o Tengku Biong). m. Y.M. Raja Nurhera binti Raja Haji Shahr ud-din (m. second, Y.M. Raja Badri Shah bin Raja Haji Harun al-Rashid, of Perak, by whom she had further issue - see Malaysia (Perak)), daughter of Y.A.M. Raja Haji Shahr ud-din ibni al-Marhum Sultan Sir Idris Murshid al-Azzam Shah Rahmatu’llah, by his first wife, Y.M. Raja Zubaida binti Raja Haji Mahmud, daughter of Y.M. Raja Haji Mahmud bin Raja Kechil ‘Usman, 4thOrang Kaya-kaya Imam Paduka Tuan di-Raja of Perak. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah), having had issue, one son and two daughters:
(1) Y.M. Raja Nasrun bin Tengku Haji Hussain. b. 18th November 1943. m. Che’ Norlela. He has issue, one son and one daughter:
(a) Y.M. Raja Hussein Asrolf bin Raja Nasrun. m. (first) March 1989, Che’ Azalina. m. (second) September 1993, Elaine Chan. He had issue, one son by his first and one son and two daughters by his second wife:
(i) Y.M. Raja Harith Rifqi bin Raja Hussein Asrolf (s/o Azalina).
(ii) Y.M. Raja Muhammad Daniel bin Raja Hussein Asrolf (s/o Elaine).
(i) Y.M. Raja Kathryna binti Raja Hussein Asrolf (d/o Elaine).
(ii) Y.M. Raja Katelynn binti Raja Hussain Asrolf (d/o Elaine).
(a) Y.M. Raja Hazlyn binti Raja Nasrun.
(1) Y.M. Raja Khair ul-Nisha binti Tengku Haji Hussain b. 10th December 1945. m. Y.M. Raja Jalil bin Raja ‘Abdu’llah, from Selangor, Dir Asmarine (M) Sdn Bhd, Principal Shipping Consultant Pelorus Intelligence & Technology Acad Sdn Bhd, Mbr Maritime Inst. of Malaysia (MIMA), Malaysian Shipowners’ Assoc (MASA), etc. She d. 10th August 2003, having had issue, one son and two daughters:
(a) Y.M. Raja Lyon Ariff bin Raja Jalil. m. Y.M. Tengku Aisyarah binti Tengku Razman, of Asahan. He had issue, two sons
(i) Y.M. Raja Irfan Ashraaf bin Raja Lyon Ariff.
(ii) Y.M. Raja Muhammad Irfan Arifshah bin Raja Lyon Ariff.
(a) Y.M. Raja Nor Shireen binti Raja Jalil. m. James William Pergo Abdullah, an American. No children.
(b) Y.M. Raja Nor Shazleen binti Raja Jalil, educ. California State Univ. (CSU), chico, California, USA (B.Com. 1997), Univ. Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Selangor (MBA 2003). Accountant and fund manager. m. Tarkriz Kamil bin ‘Abdu’l Rahman.
(2) Y.M. Raja Zaharira binti Tengku Haji Hussain. b. 8th February 1946 (?) m. and has issue, one son and one daughter.
vii) Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’llah bin Tengku Alang Yahya [Dollah] (s/o Tengku Biong). m. Y.M. Tengku Ijjah binti Tengku Rahmad, daughter of Y.M. Tengku Rahmad bin Tengku Ismail al-Haj, Tengku Pangeran Bendahara Putra of Bedagai, in Deli. He had issue, one son and one daughter:
(1) Y.M. Tengku Madrail bin Tengku Dollah. m. Y.M. Tengku Hania binti Tengku ‘Abdu’l Majid (m. second, Y.M. Tengku Bahar ud-din bin Tengku Kechil Muda, of Kisaran), daughter of Y.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Majid bin Tengku Alang Yahya, sometime DH of Tanjung Balai, by his wife, Y.A.M. Tengku ‘Isah binti al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, younger daughter of H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah II ibni al-Marhum Sultan Ahmad Shah, Sultan of Asahan. He was k. at Tanjung Balai, together with 40 members of his family, during the “social revolution”, 4th March 1946 (bur. there at the Great Mosque of Sultan Ahmad Shah).
iv) Y.M. Tengku Shams binti Tengku Alang Yahya (d/o Tengku Biong). m. as his first wife, Y.A.M. Tengku ‘Abdu’l Aziz ibni al-Marhum Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah, son of H.H. Sri Paduka Tuanku Sultan Muhammad Husain Rahmad Shah II ibni al-Marhum Tengku Muhammad ‘Adil, Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Asahan, by his fifth wife, H.H. Tengku Zahara binti Raja Muhammad Yusuf al-Mahdi, youngest daughter of H.H. Raja Muhammad Yusuf al-Mahdi bin Raja ‘Ali, Yang di-Pertuan Muda of Riau. She had issue, three sons and five daughters – see below.
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