A Sunni-Sufi scholar counted among the first missionaries to bring Islam to the Sulu archipelago (present-day Philippines). By tradition he arrived at Jolo around 1280 and formed a small Muslim community among a still largely animist population. His descendants gained social and political prominence in Sulu, showing the native people's openness to Islam. Sources record his death in 710/1310 and burial at Bud Dato near Jolo; the Bud Dato tombstone is among the oldest known dated Islamic inscriptions in the Philippines (1310). Accounts of the early Islamization of Sulu rest largely on oral and hagiographic tradition, stated transparently. No verified numeric coordinates were found for his tomb, so no map pin has been added.