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 اليافعي
ʿAbd Allāh b. Asʿad al-Yāfiʿī
Died 768/1367 · Hijaz
Founder of the Yāfiʿiyya
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
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. Asʿad al-Yāfiʿī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Shāh Niʿmat Allāh Walīشاه نعمت الله ولی1431
two sourcesin Niʿmatullāhiyya
gave the khirqa · ʿAbd Allāh b. Asʿad al-Yāfiʿī to Shāh Niʿmat Allāh Walī · Two independent sources
Shāh Niʿmat Allāh went to Mecca and became pupil, then khalīfa, of al-Yāfiʿī; the order's page says he served him seven years.
Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, Ni'matullahiyya, pp. 101-102the community's own account: nimatullahi.org, Masters of the Path (order's own account)Checked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L5847 · agreesPupil then khalīfa of 'Abdallah al-Yafi'i in Mecca.
- nimatullahi.org Masters of the Path, page · agreesDisciple of Shaykh ʿAbdoʾllah Yāfeʿi in Mecca, served seven years.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿAbd Allāh b. Asʿad al-Yāfiʿī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/abdullah-yafii (data of 31 October 2026).