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Who received from ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib

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• Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamīأبو عبد الرحمن السلمي692
  ✓two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings

  read the Qurʾān to · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī · Two independent sources

  al-Sulamī and Zirr also read to ʿUthmān and ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib; TDV gives Ḥafṣ's chain as ʿĀṣim, al-Sulamī, ʿAlī, the Prophet.

  Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3922-3924TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Hafs b. Süleyman

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  • Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L11550 · agrees (not independent)Entry: ʿarḍ from ʿAlī.
  • al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L457 · agreesEntry: read to ʿAlī.
  • al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L156-L159 · agreesRijāl of ʿĀṣim: al-Sulamī from ʿAlī.
• al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlīالحسن بن علي669
  the community's own accountin Shādhiliyya

  initiation · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī · The community's own account

  Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.

  Wikipedia, Shadhili (relays the chain from shazuli.com 'Spiritual Genealogy'; tertiary)

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  ✓two sourcesin The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines

  child of · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī · Two independent sources

  Son of ʿAlī.

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsnâaşeriyye

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  • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L48962-48964 · agreesal-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib.
  • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān (OpenITI), wafayat#L9941-9942 · agreesal-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib.
  ✓two sourcesin The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines

  successor of · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī · Two independent sources

  Second Imam in the Twelver list (d. 49/669).

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsnâaşeriyye

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  • Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān (OpenITI), wafayat#L9942-9945, L9959-9960 · agreesal-Ḥasan received the oath the day his father died; died 49/669, also 50 or 51 (IK prefers 50).
  • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L49554-49556 · differsDeath year 49 (al-Wāqidī), 50 (most), 51 (al-Bukhārī); the figure keeps 49.
• al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlīالحسين بن علي680
  one sourcein Qādiriyya≠sources differ

  family descent · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī · One source

  TDV Kādiriyye records that one Qādirī chain, the 'silsile-i zeheb', runs back from Maʿrūf al-Karkhī through 'İmam ʿAlī al-Riḍā and the other Ahl al-bayt imams' to ʿAlī; TDV does not name the intermediate imams, so each step here follows a secondary list.

  Wikipedia, 'Qadiri Order' (secondary; silsila chains B cites Abun-Nasr 2007 pp. 86-96, not independently checked)TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Kādiriyye'

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  • Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13795-13813 (App. A chart) · agreesChart gives ʿAlī, Ḥusayn, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, al-Bāqir, al-Ṣādiq, al-Kāẓim, al-Riḍā in this descent.

  Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

  • TDV Kādiriyye records a second Qādirī chain, the 'silsile-i müzehheb', running from Maʿrūf through Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī, Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī to ʿAlī.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Kādiriyye'TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Hasan-ı Basrî'
  one sourcein Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings

  read the Qurʾān to · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī · One source

  al-Ḥusayn read to his father ʿAlī; ʿAlī read to the Prophet.

  Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 4168-4171

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  • Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L6805 · agrees (not independent)Entry: read to his father and to al-Sulamī.
  • al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L148 · silentEntry does not state this link.
  one sourcein Schools of law and ḥadīth

  successor of · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī · One source

  Imamate line as the Twelver tradition transmits it (attributed; not our claim).

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Câfer es-Sâdık'

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  • al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L37923, 135691 · agreesal-Ḥusayn’s entry lists his father ʿAlī among his sources; ʿAlī’s entry lists his son al-Ḥusayn. Filiation confirmed; the imamate succession stays Twelver.
  ✓two sourcesin The Prophet's family: descent and imamate lines

  child of · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī · Two independent sources

  Son of ʿAlī.

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, İsnâaşeriyye

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  • al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ (OpenITI), siyar#L49607-49609 · agreesal-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib.
  • Ibn ʿInaba, ʿUmdat al-ṭālib (OpenITI), umda#L2533-2534 · agreesal-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī; descendants through Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn.
• al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrīالحسن البصري728
  one sourcein Qādiriyya≠sources differ

  gave the khirqa · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī · One source

  TDV Hasan-ı Basrî: it is 'believed' (inanılır) that he received the khirqa from ʿAlī or from Kumayl b. Ziyād; TDV gives no sources or counter-arguments there.

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Hasan-ı Basrî'TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Kādiriyye'

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  • Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13731-13745 (App. A) · differsEarliest silsilas run Hasan via Anas to the Prophet; ʿAlī is not mentioned in silsilas until the 5th/11th century.
  • TDV, 'Hasan-ı Basrî', hasan-i-basri · agreesRecords belief that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or Kumayl b. Ziyād (belief, not report).

  Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

  • Chain 'ʿAlī, Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī, Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī, Maʿrūf' (silsile-i müzehheb) as transmitted by the order.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Kādiriyye'TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Habîb el-Acemî'
  • TDV Hasan-ı Basrî records the belief (inanılır) that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or from Kumayl b. Ziyād.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Hasan-ı Basrî'
  • Trimingham (App. A): the oldest silsilas (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Qushayrī) do not name ʿAlī; he enters Sufi chains only in the 5th/11th century.See checks
  one sourcein Chishtiyya (Chishti order)≠sources differ

  gave the khirqa · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī · One source

  TDV Çiştiyye (K. A. Nizami) gives the chain as reaching the Prophet through ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd, al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and ʿAlī, without describing how al-Ḥasan received it; whether al-Ḥasan met ʿAlī is not discussed in the open sources read.

  Nizami, K. A., 'Çiştiyye', TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 8 (1993), pp. 343-346TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Hasan-ı Basrî'

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  • Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13731-13745 (App. A) · differsEarliest silsilas run Hasan via Anas to the Prophet; ʿAlī is not mentioned in silsilas until the 5th/11th century.
  • TDV, 'Hasan-ı Basrî', hasan-i-basri · agreesRecords belief that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or Kumayl b. Ziyād (belief, not report).
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'ČEŠTĪYA' (Gerhard Böwering), Vol. V, Fasc. 3, pp. 333-336, section History · agreesChain as given by Indian Chishti sources runs Hasan Basri—ʿAlī—Muhammad, but Iranica calls it 'historically flawed'.

  Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

  • TDV Hasan-ı Basrî records the belief (inanılır) that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or from Kumayl b. Ziyād.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Hasan-ı Basrî'
  • Trimingham (App. A): the oldest silsilas (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Qushayrī) do not name ʿAlī; he enters Sufi chains only in the 5th/11th century.See checks
  • Böwering (Iranica): the Indian Chishti chain from Ibrahim b. Adham to the Prophet via al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and ʿAlī is 'historically flawed'.Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'ČEŠTĪYA' (Gerhard Böwering)
  one sourcein Mawlawiyya (Mevlevî)≠sources differ

  gave the khirqa · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī · One source

  Listed in the chain Aflākī gives in Manāqib al-ʿārifīn (II, 998), as reported by TDV Mevleviyye.

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, MEVLEVİYYE

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  • Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13731-13745 (App. A) · differsEarliest silsilas run Hasan via Anas to the Prophet; ʿAlī is not mentioned in silsilas until the 5th/11th century.
  • TDV, 'Hasan-ı Basrî', hasan-i-basri · agreesRecords belief that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or Kumayl b. Ziyād (belief, not report).

  Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

  • Aflākī's chain, as reported by TDV Mevleviyye, passes from ʿAlī to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, MEVLEVİYYE
  • TDV Hasan-ı Basrî records the belief (inanılır) that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or from Kumayl b. Ziyād.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Hasan-ı Basrî'
  • Trimingham (App. A): the oldest silsilas (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Qushayrī) do not name ʿAlī; he enters Sufi chains only in the 5th/11th century.See checks
  one sourcein Suhrawardiyya≠sources differ

  gave the khirqa · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī · One source

  TDV Sühreverdiyye: from Maʿrūf the chain reaches ʿAlī by two routes, one of which includes al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī; no intermediate names are given.

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Sühreverdiyye (Reşat Öngören)'

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  • Trimingham, Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13731-13745 (App. A) · differsEarliest silsilas run Hasan via Anas to the Prophet; ʿAlī is not mentioned in silsilas until the 5th/11th century.
  • TDV, 'Hasan-ı Basrî', hasan-i-basri · agreesRecords belief that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or Kumayl b. Ziyād (belief, not report).

  Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.

  • The other route runs through the Ahl al-Bayt imams, left unnamed in TDV.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Sühreverdiyye (Reşat Öngören)'
  • Trimingham (App. A): the oldest silsilas (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Qushayrī) do not name ʿAlī; he enters Sufi chains only in the 5th/11th century.See checks
• al-Junayd al-Baghdādīالجنيد البغدادي909
  one sourcein Rifāʿiyyaomits: the Imams from al-Ḥusayn to ʿAlī al-Riḍā, Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, Sarī al-Saqaṭī (Trimingham App. A chart).

  initiation · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to al-Junayd al-Baghdādī · One source

  TDV's Rifāʿī silsila ends at ʿAlī through al-Junayd (the order's own account as TDV reports it; both chains share this step).

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Rifâiyye'

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  • Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L1956-1958 · agreesThe Baghdad lines go back through al-Junayd to Maʿrūf al-Karkhī and Sarī al-Saqaṭī.
  • Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13795-13813 · agreesAppendix A chart: ʿAlī, then the Imams to al-Riḍā, Maʿrūf, Sarī, al-Junayd.
• ʿAlī al-Riḍāعلي الرضا818
  one sourcein Kubrawiyyaomits: al-Ḥusayn, ʿAlī Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, Muḥammad al-Bāqir, Jaʿfar al-Ṣādiq, Mūsā al-Kāẓim (Trimingham App. A chart).

  initiation · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to ʿAlī al-Riḍā · One source

  Order's silsila runs from ʿAlī to Imām ʿAlī al-Riḍā (chain compressed by TDV).

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ

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  • Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L13790-13813 · agreesAppendix A chart runs the ʿAlid line ʿAlī, al-Ḥusayn, Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn, al-Bāqir, al-Ṣādiq, Mūsā al-Kāẓim to ʿAlī al-Riḍā.
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'KOBRAWIYA' (Hamid Algar), section i. The Eponym (no print volume shown; online ed. 2021) · silentArticle does not treat the ʿAlid imams as links in Kubrā's chain.
• Kumayl b. Ziyādكميل بن زياد
  the community's own accountin Kubrawiyya

  initiation · ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib to Kumayl b. Ziyād · The community's own account

  Second chain, via Ismāʿīl al-Qaṣrī, goes to ʿAlī through Kumayl b. Ziyād.

  TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ

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  • Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, grep Kumayl: no entry · silentTrimingham does not carry the Kumayl chain; no independent source found for this step.
  • Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'KOBRAWIYA' (Hamid Algar), section i. The Eponym (no print volume shown; online ed. 2021) · silentGives Kubrā's initiation by Ismāʿīl Qaṣrī but no chain behind Qaṣrī.