Haji Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin

Haji Zakaria bin Muhammad Amin (7 March 1913 – 1 January 2006) was an Indonesian ulama, politician, and writer from Bangkinang, Kampar. He was an ulama in Bengkalis Regency, and was the first head of Islamic religious administration in Bengkalis. Zakaria was the son in law of Tuan Guru Haji Ahmad, the first ulama of Bengkalis Regency, who along with him founded Al-Khairiyah, the first Islamic boarding school in Bengkalis Regency, in 1937, and teaching there until 1943. He was also the founder of MDTA Mahbatul Ulum, an Islamic school made as successor for Al-Khairiyah, in 1963, and Al-Ishlah Mosque, to support the teaching activities at MDTA Mahbatul Ulum, which both operates until now. In 2023, Zakaria was posthumously awarded the title of Regional Hero of Riau by the Riau Regional People's Representative Council. He became the subject of Zakaria: Pahlawan Dalam Kenangan (literally Zakaria: a Hero in Memory; 2023), a documentary film from the thanksgiving ceremony of his regional hero awarding.

Born in Bangkinang, Zakaria was raised in an Islamic environmental family and spent his time by trading and herding buffalo owned by his parents. In 1923, he traveled to Mecca to doing the hajj and began to studying Islamic science there along with several scholars, including Ahmad Khatib al-Minangkabawi.