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.
أبو الخير محمد بن مسلم الدباس
Abū l-Khayr Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Dabbās
Died 525/1131 · Baghdad
Spiritual guide of al-Jīlānī and his father-in-law (per TDV)
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 Abū l-Khayr Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Dabbās
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānīعبد القادر الجيلاني1166
two sourcesin Qādiriyyasources differ
gave the khirqa · Abū l-Khayr Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Dabbās to ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī · Two independent sources
TDV: sources say he took the tariqa khirqa from al-Dabbās, whose son-in-law he was.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Abdülkādir-i Geylânî'TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Kādiriyye'Checked against
- Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L2574-2576, n.2 L2105 · agreesDabbās (d. 525/1131) trained him in the Way.
- al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), 0748Dhahabi.SiyarAclamNubala.Shamela0010906-ara1.mARkdown#L214953 · agreesSamʿānī (quoted by Dhahabī): ʿAbd al-Qādir accompanied Shaykh Ḥammād al-Dabbās.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Initiation through al-Dabbās (sources cited by TDV).TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Abdülkādir-i Geylânî'
- Shaykhly khirqa from al-Muḥarrimī, with the chain shared from Maʿrūf onward.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Abdülkādir-i Geylânî'TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Kādiriyye'
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Abū l-Khayr Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Dabbās”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/abu-l-khayr-dabbas (data of 31 October 2026).