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.
محمد بن عبد الكبير الكتاني
Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī
Died 1909-05-04 · born 1873 · Fez
Shaykh of the Kattāniyya; arrest ordered by Sultan Mulay ʿAbd al-Ḥafīẓ 1909, executed in Fez (Eickelman); other accounts say flogged to death
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 Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Kattānīعبد الحي الكتاني1962
two sourcesin Kattāniyyasources differ
successor of · Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī to ʿAbd al-Ḥayy al-Kattānī · Two independent sources
After 1909 and the closure of the zawiyas, the order revived under ʿAbd al-Ḥayy, Muḥammad's younger brother.
Dale F. Eickelman, 'Kattaniya Brotherhood', Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, via Encyclopedia.comTrimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, Kattaniyya entryWikipedia, Muhammad al-Kattani (tertiary)Checked against
- Eickelman, entry · agreesOrder revived under Shaykh ʿAbd al-Ḥayy during the protectorate; collapsed after 1953.
- Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, trimingham_sufi-orders-in-islam_1971.txt#L6348 · agreesZawiyas closed, order almost disappeared, reorganised c. 1918 under ʿAbd al-Ḥayy.
- Wikipedia, Muhammad al-Kattani, family · agreesʿAbd al-Ḥayy (1884-1962) is his younger brother.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Dates differ: Wikipedia says the Kattānī family established the ṭarīqa in 1853; Trimingham c. 1850 by 'Muhammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhab' (as printed; the Fez zawiya is elsewhere credited to Abū l-Mafākhir Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid, d. 1872, in a low-quality listing); Eickelman 1890.Wikipedia, Muhammad al-Kattani (tertiary)Trimingham, The Sufi Orders in Islam (1971), local .txt, Kattaniyya entryDale F. Eickelman, 'Kattaniya Brotherhood', Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa, via Encyclopedia.com
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/muhammad-b-abd-al-kabir-kattani (data of 31 October 2026).