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Atlas

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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Layène

Sufi orders · Seydina Limamou Laye · 1880-1884 · Yoff · 1 route to the Prophet recorded

Senegalese Lebu community founded by Seydina Limamou Laye (c. 1844-1909), centred at Yoff and Cambérène. Wikipedia and the title of Thomas's monograph call it a Sufi brotherhood; the community's own account, reported there, holds that he declared himself the Mahdi and the return of the Prophet.

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).

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. one source · spiritual link, without meeting

    1909

Senegalese Lebu community founded by Seydina Limamou Laye (c. 1844-1909), centred at Yoff and Cambérène. Wikipedia and the title of Thomas's monograph call it a Sufi brotherhood; the community's own account, reported there, holds that he declared himself the Mahdi and the return of the Prophet.

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.

Khalifate of the Layène1909-present · Yoff · 9 names
  1. محمد632

  2. one source · spiritual link, without meeting

    1909

  3. one source

  4. one source

  5. one source

  6. one source

  7. one source

  8. one source

  9. two sources

Living today

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

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Layène”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/layene (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)
    • (Layène)
      • Wikipedia: the founder is said to have claimed to be the Mahdi, and the community holds him to be the return of the Prophet; it adds that the Layène are open to all Muslims.
      • Founding date: Wikipedia 1884; an allAfrica report counts January 2026 as the 146th anniversary of the community's 'Appel', i.e. 1880. Not reconciled.
    • (Layène)
      • Numbering and parentage differ by report: Le Soleil calls him the 7th khalife and son of Seydina Ababacar Laye; Dakaractu the 8th and son of Seydina Issa Laye. No rival claimant found.