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.
الحاج كمارة
al-Ḥājj Kamara
Saint-Louis
Qādirī guide in Saint-Louis who initiated Ahmadu Bamba (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 al-Ḥājj Kamara
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Aḥmadu Bambaأحمد بمب1927
the community's own accountin Qādiriyyasources differ
initiation · al-Ḥājj Kamara to Aḥmadu Bamba · The community's own account
TDV Ahmedü Bamba: joined the Qādiriyya through al-Ḥājj Kamara in Saint-Louis.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Ahmedü Bamba'Not yet checked against a further reference.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- TDV also reports he later studied with the Qādirī shaykh Sīdiyā in Mauritania, who named him khalīfa for the Wolof region.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Ahmedü Bamba'
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “al-Ḥājj Kamara”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/hajj-kamara (data of 31 October 2026).