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.
كميل بن زياد
Kumayl b. Ziyād
Kufa
Companion of ʿAlī; named in the Qaṣrī chain
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
Dates are given where the sources give them. Years are CE; the Hijri year is in each name's detail.
Route 1 of 1, the best-sourced: Kubrawiyya. Tap a rule to read its basis, sources and checks.
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
two sourcesthis step is recorded in Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings, not in Kubrawiyya
read the Qurʾān to · The Prophet Muhammad to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib · Two independent sources
Ibn al-Jazarī: the Companion read the Qurʾān to the Messenger of God (the isnād ends here in each chain).
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3917-3922Checked against
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L148 · agreesListed among the first ṭabaqa, those who read to the Messenger of God.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L156-L159 · agreesRijāl of ʿĀṣim: al-Sulamī took from ʿAlī, among others, from the Prophet.
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālibعلي بن أبي طالب661the 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 KübrâChecked against
- 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.
Kumayl b. Ziyādكميل بن زياد
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 Kumayl b. Ziyād
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zaydعبد الواحد بن زيد
the community's own accountin Kubrawiyyaomits: unnamed intermediaries; the basis note already records that the chronology does not allow adjacency (TDV, Necmeddîn-i Kübrâ).
initiation · Kumayl b. Ziyād to ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd · The community's own account
Same chain names ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd with Kumayl; their order and adjacency are not stated by TDV (chronology makes a direct link doubtful).
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, Necmeddîn-i KübrâChecked against
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), owner text, grep ʿAbd al-Wāḥid b. Zayd: no entry · silentNot in Trimingham. The source itself does not state the order or adjacency.
- Encyclopaedia Iranica, 'KOBRAWIYA' (Hamid Algar), section i. The Eponym (no print volume shown; online ed. 2021) · silentNo chain behind Qaṣrī given.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Kumayl b. Ziyād”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/kumayl-b-ziyad (data of 31 October 2026).