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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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Murīdiyya (Mouride) المريدية

Sufi orders · Aḥmadu Bamba · 1883-1886 · Touba

Senegalese order of Aḥmadu Bamba (c. 1853-1927), centred on the holy city of Touba. Reference works trace its ṭarīqa to the Qādiriyya through the Sidiyya line of Mauritania; no Shādhilī link was found in the sources read. Since 1927 it has been led by a khalīfa-général from Bamba's family.

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 Aḥmadu Bamba 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. 1927

Senegalese order of Aḥmadu Bamba (c. 1853-1927), centred on the holy city of Touba. Reference works trace its ṭarīqa to the Qādiriyya through the Sidiyya line of Mauritania; no Shādhilī link was found in the sources read. Since 1927 it has been led by a khalīfa-général from Bamba's family.

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-general at Toubaخلافة طوبى1927-present · Touba · 10 names
  1. الشيخ سيديا باب

  2. two sources

    أحمد بمب1927

  3. one source

  4. one source

  5. one source

  6. one source

  7. one source

    2007

  8. one source

  9. one source

    2018

  10. one source

    سيرين مونتاخا امباكي

Living today

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

  • Head, Khalifate-general at Touba · as of Oct 2026 · one source

    Khalīfa-général of the Murīdiyya since 10 Jan 2018 (Wikipedia); the community's own channels were not read

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Murīdiyya (Mouride)”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/muridiyya (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)
    • (Murīdiyya (Mouride))
      • Another academic account says Bamba was also affiliated later with a Tijānī master; a David Robinson essay on Sidiyya Bābā says Bābā discouraged him from pursuing the Tijāniyya. Not read in full.
      • No source read mentions a Shādhilī affiliation of Bamba; none is asserted here.
    • (Murīdiyya (Mouride))
      • Wikipedia's text gives Abdou Khadr 1989-1990, its reference list 1988-1989.