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.
خواجه إسحاق ختلاني
Khwāja Isḥāq Khuttalānī
Died 827/1424 · Kulob (Khuttalān)
Khalīfa and son-in-law of Hamadānī
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 Khwāja Isḥāq Khuttalānī
2 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Sayyid Muḥammad Nūrbakhshمحمد نوربخش1464
two sourcesin Kubrawiyyasources differ
companionship (ṣuḥba) · Khwāja Isḥāq Khuttalānī to Sayyid Muḥammad Nūrbakhsh · Two independent sources
Nūrbakhsh joined Khuttalānī and became a leading disciple.
'Nûrbahşiyye', TDV İslâm AnsiklopedisiChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L3635-3637 · agreesMuḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh, called Nūrbakhsh (d. 869/1465), a pupil of Isḥāq al-Khuttalānī.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- TDV Nurbahşiyye: a fellow disciple dreamt of a light descending on Sayyid Muḥammad and spreading to the others; Khuttalānī then named him Nūrbakhsh. He read the dream as a sign that he was the Mahdī, and his shaykh is recorded as supporting that reading; some sources say it was Khuttalānī who convinced him. His followers later differed, some taking 'mahdī' in its lexical sense (one who guides).'Nûrbahşiyye', TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi
- TDV Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ: according to the sources, the Nūrbakhshiyya regards Khuttalānī as one who confirmed Nūrbakhsh rather than as its source.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ
- ʿAbd Allāh-i Barzishābādīعبد الله برزش آبادي1468
two sourcesin Kubrawiyyasources differ
companionship (ṣuḥba) · Khwāja Isḥāq Khuttalānī to ʿAbd Allāh-i Barzishābādī · Two independent sources
TDV Nurbahşiyye: Barzishābādī, a leading disciple of Khuttalānī, did not accept Nūrbakhsh's Mahdīship, and the Kubrawī line continuing with his followers was called the Dhahabiyya.
'Nûrbahşiyye', TDV İslâm AnsiklopedisiChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L3631-3633 · agreesFrom Khuttalānī through his pupil ʿAbdallāh Barzishābādī Mashhadī came the Dhahabiyya.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- TDV Zehebiyye (a cross-reference entry): a Kubrawī branch, the Kubrawiyya itself being listed among the Suhrawardī branches, 'attributed to' Barzishābādī (d. 872/1468).'Zehebiyye', TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (short entry)
- TDV Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ: Barzishābādī continued Khuttalānī's line without doctrinal change; the fully Shiʿi Dhahabiyya appeared about four generations later, mainly in western Iran. TDV finds no sign that Barzishābādī or his mostly Sunni khalīfas were Shiʿi, and suggests the branch took a distinct Shiʿi form through Ghulām ʿAlī Nīshābūrī.TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Khwāja Isḥāq Khuttalānī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/ishaq-khuttalani (data of 31 October 2026).