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.
القعنبي
ʿAbd Allāh b. Maslama al-Qaʿnabī
Mecca
Teacher of Muslim and Abū Dāwūd
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 ʿAbd Allāh b. Maslama al-Qaʿnabī
2 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānīأبو داود السجستاني
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · ʿAbd Allāh b. Maslama al-Qaʿnabī to Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī · Two independent sources
Siyar: Abū Dāwūd heard in Mecca from al-Qaʿnabī and Sulaymān b. Ḥarb.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry Abū Dāwūd (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 146956)Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L71486, 102842 · agreesAbū Dāwūd’s entry lists al-Qaʿnabī among his sources; al-Qaʿnabī’s entry lists Abū Dāwūd among those narrating from him.
- Muslim b. al-Ḥajjājمسلم بن الحجاج
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · ʿAbd Allāh b. Maslama al-Qaʿnabī to Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj · Two independent sources
Siyar: Muslim heard in Mecca from al-Qaʿnabī, his oldest teacher.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry Muslim (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 142706)Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L187633, 102842 · agreesMuslim’s entry lists al-Qaʿnabī among his sources; al-Qaʿnabī’s entry lists al-Bukhārī, Muslim and Abū Dāwūd among those narrating from him.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿAbd Allāh b. Maslama al-Qaʿnabī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/qanabi (data of 31 October 2026).