Pasai is rewritten The history of Pasai a written in Hikayat Raja-Raja in Chapters 7 and 9 of the Malay Annals. The creation myths found in both chronicles shows a striking resemblance in content as well as in wording (Teeuw 1964: 222). But the Hikayat Raja-Raja Pasai story is much longer and gives much more detail, as it is the main topic of this work. while the Sejara Melayu Shaikh part of the history of Malacca. In the Sejarah Me when Captain set out from the Deccan to Sumatra, he first reached Fansuri Barus, on Isma the west coast of Sumatra). then Lamiri Aceh), then Aru E Deli), In all three ces they converted the people to lslam. but the ascetic found that the people the could not read the Koran, so he knew that it was not the place they asked the people where Samudra Muhammad wanted him to go. In Deli They set sail again and, after d they discovered that they had passed was a another short stop at Perak to convert the peo arrived at Samudra the familiar story follows, ending with the installa of Siloe king with Sultan Malik Salih and the presentation of the royal regalia that Shaikh Ismail had brought from Mecca nobility and the Without curtailing the grandeur of Samudra Pasai's the only legitimacy, the Malay chronieler not single out Samudra Melayu a place in Sumatra visited by the Prophet's messenger. The Sejarah than once the acknowledges the court of Pasai as a center of Islamic studies. More sends an envoy to Pasai for answers to theological question Sultan of Malacca (Brown 1970: 92-93, such folk legends Malay histories incorporate material from various sources. as and matter of fact accounts about daily activities of rulers who link them to historical personages (lskandar 195s: 20-21) These diverse materials are combined to preserve a sacred state myth. Josselin de Jong argues that the combination of these elements in Malay chronicles was of critical importance for the survival of the state, as it provided a secure claim to grandeur for the dynasty and nobility