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Chains of transmission from the Prophet, read as the sources give them.
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.

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Kattāniyya الطريقة الكتانية

Sufi orders · Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī · c. 1850-1890 · Fez

Moroccan order of Fez associated with the Kattānī family, which traces its descent to the Idrīsids. Eickelman says it drew on the Darqāwī order and Trimingham lists it among Darqāwī branches; founding dates differ by source. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr (1873-1909) led it until his death; ʿAbd al-Ḥayy revived it. No Aḥmadiyya root and no present head were found.

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).

The sources read so far record no route from the Prophet to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr al-Kattānī in this chain set. The founder is shown alone.

Dates are given where the sources give them. Years are CE; the Hijri year is in each name's detail.

  • two sources
  • one source
  • the community's own account
  • names omitted
  • sources differ
  1. 632
  2. 1909

Moroccan order of Fez associated with the Kattānī family, which traces its descent to the Idrīsids. Eickelman says it drew on the Darqāwī order and Trimingham lists it among Darqāwī branches; founding dates differ by source. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Kabīr (1873-1909) led it until his death; ʿAbd al-Ḥayy revived it. No Aḥmadiyya root and no present head were found.

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).

Branches (1)

Each opens as a side-chain from the founder, with the same marks.

Kattāniyya of Fezالزاوية الكتانية بفاس19th-20th c. · Fez · 3 names
  1. العربي الدرقاوي1823

  2. two sources · omits: all intermediary shaykhs between al-Darqāwī (d. 1823) and Muḥammad al-Kattānī (b. 1873); the sources give a derivation, not a chain

    محمد بن عبد الكبير الكتاني1909

  3. two sources

    عبد الحي الكتاني1962

Living today

Public roles only, as the communities and the press report them, dated.

  • Teacher · as of Oct 2026 · one source

    Kattānī shaykh giving hadith and ṭarīq lessons (as listed in the atlas); no source read ranks him as head of the order

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Kattāniyya”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/kattaniyya (data of 31 October 2026).

Not yet confirmed (0)

These links are told by an order or a secondary source and still have to be read against a primary or reference source.

    Where the sources differ (2)
    • (Kattāniyya)
      • Wikipedia (Muhammad al-Kattani) names no Darqāwī, Aḥmadiyya or Idrīsī-Sanūsī teacher; it records only a Shādhilī student, Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Fāsī. No source read supports an Aḥmadiyya root.
    • (Kattāniyya)
      • 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.