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.
عبد الرحمن الزيلعي
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zayla'ī
Baghdad
Qādirī shaykh whose tomb/ijāza figures in Uways traditions
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 al-Raḥmān al-Zayla'ī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Shaykh Uways al-Barāwīأويس البراوي1909
the community's own accountin Qādiriyyasources differ
initiation · ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zayla'ī to Shaykh Uways al-Barāwī · The community's own account
Oral tradition: Uways met al-Zayla'ī and was given control of the Qādiriyya; Samatar holds he only visited the tomb and received a symbolic ijāza.
Wikipedia, 'Uways al-Barawi' (secondary; cites B. G. Martin 1969, Samatar)Not yet checked against a further reference.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Oral tradition: al-Zayla'ī handed him the Qādiriyya.Wikipedia, 'Uways al-Barawi' (secondary; cites B. G. Martin 1969, Samatar)
- Samatar: visit to the tomb and symbolic ijāza to preach.Wikipedia, 'Uways al-Barawi' (secondary; cites B. G. Martin 1969, Samatar)
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zayla'ī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/zayla-i (data of 31 October 2026).