Sultan Muhammad al-Fateh was born on 30 Mac 1432 in the Turkish-Bulgarian border. His father Sultan Murad II (1401-1451) was a good man, reliable in jihad war and had great insight. He gave a perfect upbringing to his son so that Muhammad became a skilled boy from childhood.
Muhammad studied and mastered various branches of science such as religion, politics, combat and martial arts, war science, tasauf, psychology and others. He is capable in 7 languages namely Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Hebrew, Persian, Latin and Serbian. This illustrates his extraordinary intelligence.
Uthmaniyyah Caliphate who bermazhab Ahli Sunnah wal Jamaah stream Asha'irah and Hanbali bermazhab is very concerned with knowledge kesau persauf. The palace practiced Tariqat Naqshabadiyyah. The caliphs had their distinctive cubicle. The person who formed the spiritual Murad and his son was a great murshid of the Naqshbandiyyah Tariqat, Shaykh Shamsuddin al-Wali, a descendant of Sayyidina Abu Bakr. He acted as an advisor to the Turkish Empire Uthmaniyyah at the time.
When Muhammad was still in the cradle, Shaykh Shamsuddin once said to Sultan Murad, that it was not the king who would rule Constantinople but his son who was then in the cradle.