Jumadil Kubra (Jumādī l-Kubrā) is a legendary saint whose name occurs in Javanese chronicles ( babad ) as the common ancestor of several of the Nine Saints ( wali sanga ) credited with the Islamisation of Java. In the much abbreviated genealogies given in these chronicles, he is the person connecting the Arabian and Southeast Asian stages of Islamic history. A typical genealogy begins with the prophet Muḥammad and then lists in succession his daughter Fāṭima, her son Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī, and his son Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, followed by what appear to be