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.
مسلم بن خالد الزنجي
Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī
Mecca
Muftī of Mecca; al-Shāfiʿī's first teacher
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 Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfiʿīمحمد بن إدريس الشافعي820
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī to Muḥammad b. Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī · Two independent sources
Siyar: al-Shāfiʿī first took knowledge in Mecca from Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī, muftī of Mecca.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry al-Shāfiʿī (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 112695)TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, 'Şâfiî'Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L163550, 187770 · agreesal-Shāfiʿī’s entry lists Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī among his teachers; al-Zanjī’s entry lists al-Shāfiʿī among his pupils.
- Ibn Khallikān, Wafayāt al-aʿyān, Shamela0001000 #L30469 · agreesIbn Khallikān quotes al-Zanjī telling al-Shāfiʿī “give fatwas”, taken as the Meccan muftī authorising him.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Muslim b. Khālid al-Zanjī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/muslim-b-khalid-zanji (data of 31 October 2026).