Abu Dahlan Tanoh Abee, full name Teungku Haji Muhammad Dahlan al-Fairusi al-Baghdadi, was born in 1943 and died on 18 November 2006, aged 63, after several years of heart disease. He was the son of Teungku Muhammad Ali, author of a Shattariyya manuscript recording his spiritual lineage, and is described as a ninth-generation descendant of Shaykh Fairus, who founded Dayah Tanoh Abee in 1627; he is also described as a great-grandson of Teungku Chik Abdul Wahab Tanoh Abee, the fighting ulama who died in exile in 1894. As head of Dayah Teungku Chik Tanoh Abee in Seulimeum, Aceh Besar, he was custodian of its manuscript collection, one of the largest Islamic manuscript holdings in Southeast Asia, said to have once numbered about 10,000 before war losses reduced it to around 3,000–3,500, including Sufi works by Hamzah Fansuri and Shamsuddin al-Sumatrani. After the 2004 tsunami destroyed many of Aceh's document repositories he opened the collection more widely to researchers, and a manuscript library was built on his land, initiated by PPIM UIN Jakarta with Manassa and PKPM Aceh and funded by the Prince Claus Fund's CER programme.