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 حسن ظافر المدني
Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī
Died 1263/1847 (TDV Yeşrutî gives 1846)
Founder of the Madaniyya; Shaykh Zâfir in Istanbul
Sources for this person
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi (3 entries)
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 Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī
2 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- ʿAlī Nūr al-Dīn al-Yashruṭī al-Tūnisīعلي نور الدين اليشرطي1899
one sourcein Shādhiliyya
gave the khirqa · Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī to ʿAlī Nūr al-Dīn al-Yashruṭī al-Tūnisī · One source
TDV Yeşrutî: he received the caliphate (hilāfet) from Muḥammad Ḥasan Ẓāfir al-Madanī and served him about thirteen years.
TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, YeşrutîNot yet checked against a further reference.
- Masʿūd al-Fāsī al-Shādhilīمسعود الفاسي1872
the community's own accountin Shādhiliyya
successor of · Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī to Masʿūd al-Fāsī al-Shādhilī · The community's own account
Taleb n. 110 (from Abū Zayyān al-Ghārisī, Kanz al-asrār): Masʿūd al-Fāsī succeeded Ẓāfir al-Madanī.
L. R. Taleb, PhD thesis, Univ. of Toronto 2023, sec. 2.5 and n. 110 (read in the owner's library; not re-read here)Not yet checked against a further reference.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Muḥammad Ḥasan b. Ḥamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/zafir-al-madani (data of 31 October 2026).