A merchant-scholar and Sufi said to have led a party of seven from Hadramawt in Yemen that came ashore at Beruwala around 1024 CE. He was buried on the Ketchimalai headland, regarded as the point where Sri Lanka's Muslim (Moor) community first settled on the island. His tomb forms the nucleus of the Ketchchimalai Dargah, one of the oldest Islamic pilgrimage sites in the country; the present mosque over the site was built in 1911. He is a symbolic figure of Islam's arrival on the island.