Abdul Wahab Hasbullah
Kyai Hajj Abdul Wahab Hasbullah (31 March 1889 – 29 December 1971) was one of the founders of the Indonesian Nahdlatul Ulama movement. He also initiated the usage of newspaper for "dakwah", with the establishment of the newspaper of Nahdlatul Ulama, "Soeara Nahdlatul Oelama". He also created the lyrics for the anthem of Nahdlatul Ulama, Ya Lal Wathon, in 1934. He was declared a National Hero of Indonesia on 7 November 2014 by President Joko Widodo. He was the father of Mundijah Wahab, the current Mayor of Jombang. Early life. Abdul Wahab Hasbullah was born in the village  of Gedang, in the Jombang region of East Java. According to correspondence with Hasbullah, he didn't know the exact date of his birth. In the parliamentary almanac, his birth date was 31 March 1888, he approved his birth year as 1887.He was born as the first son of the eight brothers from his father Chasbullah and mother Nyai Latifah. Chasbullah was the head of the Tambakberas Jombang "pesantren". Hasbullah's genealogy can be traced back to Joko Tingkir and Brawijaya VI. Education. His childhood wast mostly spent in "Pesantren"s (Islamic boarding school). Before he was seven year old, his  father taught him about religion. After his father decided that he was mature enough to study in a pesantren, he was sent to the Langitan "Pesantren" under Kyai Ahmad Sholeh. Then, at the age of thirteen, his father decided that Wahab should study at several different "pesantren"s, in order to experience the uniqueness of each "pesantren"s, especially in the Islamic studies, such as Al-Quran study "tafsir", "hadith", "Arabic", and "tasawuf".