Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
عبد الله بن علوي الحداد
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād
Died 1132/1720 · born 1044/1634 · Tarīm
Bā ʿAlawī scholar, Sufi and poet; Ḥaddādiyya attributed to him; died at Ḥāwī, buried in Tarīm
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
Dates are given where the sources give them. Years are CE; the Hijri year is in each name's detail.
Route 1 of 3, the best-sourced: Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt). Tap a rule to read its basis, sources and checks.
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
- Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiqجعفر الصادق765
the community's own accountthis step is recorded in The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines, not in Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, ʿĪsā (per Ibn ʿInaba's ʿUraydī line; the Bā ʿAlawī chain names them)sources differ
child of · Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir · The community's own account
The Bā ʿAlawī sayyids are traced to al-Ḥusayn through Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā; TDV Bā Alevî as read links the line to ʿAlī through Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and does not give the intermediates. Treated as the family's own genealogy.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)Checked against
- Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L3678, L4635-4646 · silentAttests Jaʿfar, ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī, Muḥammad and ʿĪsā al-Rūmī; does not name Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir.
- Morimoto (ed.), Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies (Routledge 2012), ch.5 map notes pp.114-115 · silentGives no Bā ʿAlawī genealogy; the book's Ḥaḍramī coverage is ch.3 on the ʿAlawī-Irshādī dispute, not genealogy.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Ibn ʿInaba traces al-Ṣādiq's son ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī to Muḥammad and ʿĪsā al-Rūmī, and (L6779-6783) reports al-ʿUmarī's statement that a ʿĪsā al-Azraq al-Rūmī al-ʿUraydī left twelve sons without descendants. The text read does not say whether this is the Bā ʿAlawī ancestor, and does not name Aḥmad al-Muhājir.Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI)
Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājirأحمد بن عيسى المهاجرtwo sourcesin Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: ʿUbayd Allāh (ʿAbd Allāh), ʿAlawī b. ʿAbd Allāh and later generations; the basis note says the full genealogy is not traced. Ho (p. 39-40) confirms the intermediates: ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAlawī, Muḥammad, ʿAlī the Endower of Qasam, Muḥammad Principal of Mirbat.
family descent · Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir to Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam · Two independent sources
TDV gives the Bā ʿAlawī descent through Alawi b. Abd Allah b. Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; full genealogy not traced here.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)TDV, 'Aleviyye' (Hadramut) (Süleyman Uludağ, vol. 2, 1989, p. 370)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L925-929 · silentTrimingham gives Muḥammad b. ʿAlī of the Bā ʿAlawī tribe (574/1178-653/1255) but no descent from Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā.
- Ho, The Graves of Tarim (University of California Press, 2006), ch. 2, pp. 37-40 and Table 1 (p. 38) · agreesHo gives the Migrant's descendants stage by stage to ʿAlī of Qasam (sixth generation), the Principal of Mirbat, then the First Jurist; not a direct line.
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddamالفقيه المقدم محمد بن علي1255one sourcein Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: roughly fourteen generations between Muḥammad b. ʿAlī (d. 1255) and al-Ḥaddād (d. 1132/1720) by the atlas dates; none named in the sources read.
family descent · Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam to ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād · One source
TDV Bâ Alevî lists the Ḥaddād as a branch descending from Muḥammad b. ʿAlī's line.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)TDV, 'Haddâd, Abdullah b. Alevî' (Mustafa Çağrıcı, 1996)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L11694 · agreesʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād (d. 1720) is called founder of the Ḥaddādiyya (ʿAlawiyya-ʿAydarūsiyya).
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddādعبد الله بن علوي الحداد1720
Other routes (2)
Route 2 of 3: Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)
Sources differ on 4 links of this route.
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
- Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiqجعفر الصادق765
the community's own accountthis step is recorded in The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines, not in Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, ʿĪsā (per Ibn ʿInaba's ʿUraydī line; the Bā ʿAlawī chain names them)sources differ
child of · Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir · The community's own account
The Bā ʿAlawī sayyids are traced to al-Ḥusayn through Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā; TDV Bā Alevî as read links the line to ʿAlī through Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and does not give the intermediates. Treated as the family's own genealogy.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)Checked against
- Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L3678, L4635-4646 · silentAttests Jaʿfar, ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī, Muḥammad and ʿĪsā al-Rūmī; does not name Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir.
- Morimoto (ed.), Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies (Routledge 2012), ch.5 map notes pp.114-115 · silentGives no Bā ʿAlawī genealogy; the book's Ḥaḍramī coverage is ch.3 on the ʿAlawī-Irshādī dispute, not genealogy.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Ibn ʿInaba traces al-Ṣādiq's son ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī to Muḥammad and ʿĪsā al-Rūmī, and (L6779-6783) reports al-ʿUmarī's statement that a ʿĪsā al-Azraq al-Rūmī al-ʿUraydī left twelve sons without descendants. The text read does not say whether this is the Bā ʿAlawī ancestor, and does not name Aḥmad al-Muhājir.Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI)
Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājirأحمد بن عيسى المهاجرtwo sourcesin Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: ʿUbayd Allāh (ʿAbd Allāh), ʿAlawī b. ʿAbd Allāh and later generations; the basis note says the full genealogy is not traced. Ho (p. 39-40) confirms the intermediates: ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAlawī, Muḥammad, ʿAlī the Endower of Qasam, Muḥammad Principal of Mirbat.
family descent · Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir to Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam · Two independent sources
TDV gives the Bā ʿAlawī descent through Alawi b. Abd Allah b. Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; full genealogy not traced here.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)TDV, 'Aleviyye' (Hadramut) (Süleyman Uludağ, vol. 2, 1989, p. 370)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L925-929 · silentTrimingham gives Muḥammad b. ʿAlī of the Bā ʿAlawī tribe (574/1178-653/1255) but no descent from Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā.
- Ho, The Graves of Tarim (University of California Press, 2006), ch. 2, pp. 37-40 and Table 1 (p. 38) · agreesHo gives the Migrant's descendants stage by stage to ʿAlī of Qasam (sixth generation), the Principal of Mirbat, then the First Jurist; not a direct line.
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddamالفقيه المقدم محمد بن علي1255one sourcein Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: roughly fourteen generations between Muḥammad b. ʿAlī (d. 1255) and al-Ḥaddād (d. 1132/1720) by the atlas dates; none named in the sources read.
family descent · Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam to ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād · One source
TDV Bâ Alevî lists the Ḥaddād as a branch descending from Muḥammad b. ʿAlī's line.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)TDV, 'Haddâd, Abdullah b. Alevî' (Mustafa Çağrıcı, 1996)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L11694 · agreesʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād (d. 1720) is called founder of the Ḥaddādiyya (ʿAlawiyya-ʿAydarūsiyya).
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddādعبد الله بن علوي الحداد1720
Route 3 of 3: Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
- Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiqجعفر الصادق765
the community's own accountthis step is recorded in The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines, not in Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī, Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, ʿĪsā (per Ibn ʿInaba's ʿUraydī line; the Bā ʿAlawī chain names them)sources differ
child of · Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq to Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir · The community's own account
The Bā ʿAlawī sayyids are traced to al-Ḥusayn through Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā; TDV Bā Alevî as read links the line to ʿAlī through Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq and does not give the intermediates. Treated as the family's own genealogy.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)Checked against
- Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L3678, L4635-4646 · silentAttests Jaʿfar, ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī, Muḥammad and ʿĪsā al-Rūmī; does not name Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir.
- Morimoto (ed.), Sayyids and Sharifs in Muslim Societies (Routledge 2012), ch.5 map notes pp.114-115 · silentGives no Bā ʿAlawī genealogy; the book's Ḥaḍramī coverage is ch.3 on the ʿAlawī-Irshādī dispute, not genealogy.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Ibn ʿInaba traces al-Ṣādiq's son ʿAlī al-ʿUraydī to Muḥammad and ʿĪsā al-Rūmī, and (L6779-6783) reports al-ʿUmarī's statement that a ʿĪsā al-Azraq al-Rūmī al-ʿUraydī left twelve sons without descendants. The text read does not say whether this is the Bā ʿAlawī ancestor, and does not name Aḥmad al-Muhājir.Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI)
Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājirأحمد بن عيسى المهاجرtwo sourcesin Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: ʿUbayd Allāh (ʿAbd Allāh), ʿAlawī b. ʿAbd Allāh and later generations; the basis note says the full genealogy is not traced. Ho (p. 39-40) confirms the intermediates: ʿUbayd Allāh, ʿAlawī, Muḥammad, ʿAlī the Endower of Qasam, Muḥammad Principal of Mirbat.
family descent · Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir to Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam · Two independent sources
TDV gives the Bā ʿAlawī descent through Alawi b. Abd Allah b. Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Muhājir to Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq; full genealogy not traced here.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)TDV, 'Aleviyye' (Hadramut) (Süleyman Uludağ, vol. 2, 1989, p. 370)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L925-929 · silentTrimingham gives Muḥammad b. ʿAlī of the Bā ʿAlawī tribe (574/1178-653/1255) but no descent from Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā.
- Ho, The Graves of Tarim (University of California Press, 2006), ch. 2, pp. 37-40 and Table 1 (p. 38) · agreesHo gives the Migrant's descendants stage by stage to ʿAlī of Qasam (sixth generation), the Principal of Mirbat, then the First Jurist; not a direct line.
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddamالفقيه المقدم محمد بن علي1255one sourcein Bā ʿAlawiyya (Ṭarīqa ʿAlawiyya of Ḥaḍramawt)omits: roughly fourteen generations between Muḥammad b. ʿAlī (d. 1255) and al-Ḥaddād (d. 1132/1720) by the atlas dates; none named in the sources read.
family descent · Muḥammad b. ʿAlī, al-Faqīh al-Muqaddam to ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād · One source
TDV Bâ Alevî lists the Ḥaddād as a branch descending from Muḥammad b. ʿAlī's line.
TDV, 'Bâ Alevî' (Sâmî es-Sakkâr, 1991, vol. 4, pp. 355-357)TDV, 'Haddâd, Abdullah b. Alevî' (Mustafa Çağrıcı, 1996)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L11694 · agreesʿAbdallāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād (d. 1720) is called founder of the Ḥaddādiyya (ʿAlawiyya-ʿAydarūsiyya).
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddādعبد الله بن علوي الحداد1720
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād
No one is recorded below this person in the sources read.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlawī al-Ḥaddād”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/abdullah-haddad (data of 31 October 2026).