The father of Sunan Ampel was
Maulana Malik Ibrahim also known as Ibrahim as-Samarkandy ("Ibrahim Asmarakandi" to Javanese pronunciation) and
Sunan Gresik. His mother was a princess of the
Jeumpa Kingdom. Sunan Ampel was born in Champa, in present-day central Vietnam, in 1401 CE. Sunan Ampel came to
Java in 1443 CE, possibly to visit his aunt Dwarawati, a princess of
Jeumpa who was married to
Kertawijaya, the king of
Majapahit. A long lineage indicates that Sunan Ampel was a descendant of
Muhammad, a Prophet in the Islamic religion who was born in Mecca. However, another theory claims that Sunan Ampel had
Chinese ancestry and identifies him as Bong Swi Hoo. The two theories are not mutually exclusive, because Muslims from China interacted extensively with Southeast Asia during the time of
Zheng He. It was also common for a Muslim man to marry a local woman when settling far from his country of origin. Sunan Ampel married Nyi Gede Manila, the daughter of a
Chinese captain at
Tuban named Gan Eng Cu. This marriage produced several children: sons
Sunan Bonang and
Sunan Drajat became wali songo; daughter Syarifah became the wife of
Sunan Ngudung and the mother of
Sunan Kudus; and another daughter became the first wife of
Raden Patah and mother to
Trenggana, who succeeded his father as leader of the
Sultanate of Demak. Some sources suggest that Raden Patah was the cousin of Sunan Ampel. ==Teachings==