Atlas

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

• The Prophet Muhammad → ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib (Qādiriyya) TDV Kādiriyye states that in Qādirī ijāzas the chain reaches Ḥaḍrat ʿAlī by two routes; the step from the Prophet to ʿAlī is implied there, not stated.
• al-Shiblī → ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Tamīmī (Qādiriyya) Same TDV chain. [omits: unnamed intermediaries (al-Shiblī d. 334/946; al-Tamīmī d. c. 425/1034)]
• ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Tamīmī → Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭarsūsī (Qādiriyya) Same TDV chain.
• Abū l-Faraj al-Ṭarsūsī → Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hakkārī (Qādiriyya) Same TDV chain.
• Abū l-Ḥasan al-Hakkārī → Abū Saʿd al-Mubārak al-Muḥarrimī (Qādiriyya) Same TDV chain.
• ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī → Sayf al-Dīn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb b. ʿAbd al-Qādir (Qādiriyya) Son; succeeded his father in teaching.
• ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī → Sirāj al-Dīn Ibrāhīm b. ʿAbd al-Qādir (Qādiriyya) Son; ancestor of Moroccan Qādirī sharifs.
• ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī → Sharaf al-Dīn ʿĪsā b. ʿAbd al-Qādir (Qādiriyya) Son; ancestor of Egyptian Qādirī sharifs.
• Ḥusayn al-Ḥamawī → Eşrefoğlu Rūmī (Qādiriyya) TDV (summary only): Eşrefoğlu received a Qādirī khilāfa from Ḥusayn al-Ḥamawī at Hama and founded the first Qādirī lodge in Ottoman lands at İznik.
• Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi → Ismāʿīl Rūmī (Qādiriyya) TDV: after dreaming of al-Jīlānī, İsmâil Rûmî joined the Baghdad Qādirī central lodge under Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi.
• Sīdī ʿAlī b. Najīb → Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kabīr al-Kuntī (Qādiriyya) TDV: studied with the Qādirī shaykh Sīdī ʿAlī b. Najīb of Arawān and received the khilāfa from him.
• Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kabīr al-Kuntī → Sīdī Muḥammad b. al-Mukhtār (Qādiriyya) TDV: his son Muḥammad took over guidance after his death in 1811.
• Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kabīr al-Kuntī → Sīdiyā al-Kabīr (Qādiriyya) TDV lists Sīdiyā al-Kabīr among his leading students and followers.
• al-Ḥājj Kamara → Aḥmadu Bamba (Qādiriyya) TDV Ahmedü Bamba: joined the Qādiriyya through al-Ḥājj Kamara in Saint-Louis.
• Sīdiyā al-Kabīr → Shaykh Sidiyya Bābā (Qādiriyya) Sidiyya Bābā is the heir of the founder of the Sidiyya branch, Sidiyya al-Kabīr of Boutilimit (1780-1868) (academic source).
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zayla'ī → Shaykh Uways al-Barāwī (Qādiriyya) 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.

• ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib → al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī (Qādiriyya)
  • TDV Kādiriyye records a second Qādirī chain, the 'silsile-i müzehheb', running from Maʿrūf through Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī, Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī to ʿAlī.
• ʿAlī al-Riḍā → Maʿrūf al-Karkhī (Qādiriyya)
  • TDV Maʿrūf: 'all sources' state that he became Muslim through ʿAlī al-Riḍā; the report that he was al-Riḍā's doorkeeper also appears in Sunni sources and is generally accepted in Shiʿi circles.
  • TDV Maʿrūf reports that al-Dhahabī did not accept the doorkeeper report, suggesting the doorkeeper was another man named Maʿrūf; that Ibn Taymiyya held Maʿrūf never left Karkh and denied that he became Muslim through al-Riḍā or took a khirqa from him; and that some Shiʿi authors doubt the link because early Shiʿi ṭabaqāt works do not name him. TDV adds that sources do record Maʿrūf leaving Karkh.
  • al-Qushayrī and Jāmī give clientship (mawlā / his father as doorkeeper), not an initiation; Trimingham: 'said to have adopted Islam at his hands'.
• ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib → al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (Qādiriyya)
  • Chain 'ʿAlī, Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī, Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī, Maʿrūf' (silsile-i müzehheb) as transmitted by the order.
  • TDV Hasan-ı Basrî records the belief (inanılır) that al-Ḥasan received the khirqa from ʿAlī or from Kumayl b. Ziyād.
  • Trimingham (App. A): the oldest silsilas (Ibn al-Nadīm; al-Qushayrī) do not name ʿAlī; he enters Sufi chains only in the 5th/11th century.
• Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī → Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī (Qādiriyya)
  • Order's lineage: Dāwūd was Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī's disciple.
  • TDV Dāwūd: his murshid is said (söylenir) to have been Ḥabīb al-Rāʿī; the article does not name Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī.
  • Jāmī (Nafaḥāt pp. 44-45) names Dāwūd's guide as Ḥabīb al-Rāʿī; the atlas's Ḥabīb al-ʿAjamī is the figure the Trimingham chart and the Siyar attach.
• Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī → Maʿrūf al-Karkhī (Qādiriyya)
  • TDV Maʿrūf reports that Ibn Taymiyya and al-Dhahabī denied that Maʿrūf kept company with Dāwūd, and that some Shiʿi authors say they never met; TDV also notes that ʿAṭṭār and earlier sources record a meeting.
  • al-Dhahabī, Siyar (entry Maʿrūf al-Karkhī): reports al-Sulamī's claim that Maʿrūf accompanied Dāwūd al-Ṭāʾī and judges it unproven (lam yaṣiḥḥa).
• Abū Saʿd al-Mubārak al-Muḥarrimī → ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (Qādiriyya)
  • Trimingham (p. 42): no sign of Sufi training before he attended Ḥammād al-Dabbās's school; al-Wasiṭī (Tiryāq) says he never propagated a khirqa himself.
• Abū l-Khayr Muḥammad b. Muslim al-Dabbās → ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī (Qādiriyya)
  • Initiation through al-Dabbās (sources cited by TDV).
  • Shaykhly khirqa from al-Muḥarrimī, with the chain shared from Maʿrūf onward.
• ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī → ʿAbd al-Razzāq b. ʿAbd al-Qādir (Qādiriyya)
  • al-Wasiṭī via Trimingham: only ʿAbd al-Razzāq and ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz of his sons took up the Way; his khirqa spread after his death.
• Ḥusayn al-Ḥamawī → Eşrefoğlu Rūmī (Qādiriyya)
  • Some accounts make Ḥājjī Bayram his first murshid (hence Bayramiyya); according to TDV (read in summary only), Ḥājjī Bayram instead sent him to Ḥamawī.
• Seyyid Feyzullah Efendi → Ismāʿīl Rūmī (Qādiriyya)
  • Some silsilenames name the Khalwati Ahmed Efendi as his murshid; he also received an ijāzatnāme from Aḥmad-i Miṣrī in Egypt.
• Sīdī ʿAlī b. Najīb → Sīdī al-Mukhtār al-Kabīr al-Kuntī (Qādiriyya)
  • Marcus-Sells rejects describing al-Mukhtar al-Kunti as 'pole' or 'head' of the Qadiriyya in West Africa, calling those terms anachronistic; she says he and his son saw themselves as following a path of awrad inherited from earlier figures.
• al-Ḥājj Kamara → Aḥmadu Bamba (Qādiriyya)
  • TDV also reports he later studied with the Qādirī shaykh Sīdiyā in Mauritania, who named him khalīfa for the Wolof region.
• ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Zayla'ī → Shaykh Uways al-Barāwī (Qādiriyya)
  • Oral tradition: al-Zayla'ī handed him the Qādiriyya.
  • Samatar: visit to the tomb and symbolic ijāza to preach.
• Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qādirī al-Būdshīshī → Mawlāy Munīr al-Qādirī al-Būdshīshī (Qādiriyya)
  • Mounir's side, as reported: his father named him spiritual heir at the commemoration of Hamza's death (le360, 13 Aug 2025); on 17 Aug he spoke of leadership as a spiritual mission, with unity and consultation first.
  • Assembly of 50+ representatives at Madagh, reported 18 Aug 2025: collegial direction as the governance model, structure not described.
  • Muʿād's side, as reported: after Mounir's communiqué of 13 Aug 2025 ceding leadership, a council at Madagh (reported 2 Feb 2026) adopted an attestation recognising Muʿād's legitimacy to lead the order spiritually.
• Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qādirī al-Būdshīshī → Shaykh Muʿād al-Qādirī al-Būdshīshī (Qādiriyya)
  • Mounir's side: he was the named heir (le360, 13 Aug 2025); he then ceded the role to his brother by communiqué.
  • Muʿād's side: the Madagh council's attestation recognises his legitimacy (h24info, 2 Feb 2026).
• Bakkāʾiyya (Qādiriyya)
  • Founded by ʿAlī al-Bakkāʾ, d. 670/1271 (al-Zabīdī).
  • Founded by Aḥmad al-Bakkāʾ al-Kuntī, d. 908/1503 (al-ʿAynī, Trimingham, Dernīqa per TDV).
  • Founded by ʿUmar al-Bakkāʾ, d. 960/1553 (Rinn per TDV).
• Ghawthiyya (Qādiriyya)
  • TDV Qādiriyya lists it as a Qādirī branch.
  • TDV 'Muhammed Gavs' calls Gavsiyye a branch of the Shaṭṭāriyya.
• Barzinjī sheikhs (Qādiriyya)
  • TDV: descendants of al-Jīlānī representing the order in southeast and east Anatolia.
  • Wikipedia summary: scholars disagree on when the family joined the Qādiriyya; one academic source puts it in the early 18th century.