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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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Shādhiliyya الشاذلية

Sufi orders · Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī · c. 1200s · Tunis · 2 routes to the Prophet recorded

A Sufi order named for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 1258), who studied with Ibn Mashīsh and taught in Tunis and then Alexandria. In its own account its chain reaches the Prophet through al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī. Its many branches stretch from Morocco to Egypt, the Levant and East Africa.

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).
Route 1 of 2, the best-sourced: other routes (1)

Routes are ordered by how many steps rest on two sources, then by how few rest on the community's own account or on another chain set's record, then by length. The best-sourced opens first.

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. the community's own account

    661

  3. the community's own account

    669

  4. the community's own account

  5. the community's own account

  6. the community's own account

  7. the community's own account

  8. the community's own account

  9. the community's own account

  10. the community's own account

  11. the community's own account

  12. the community's own account

  13. the community's own account

  14. the community's own account

  15. the community's own account

  16. the community's own account

  17. the community's own account

    1227

  18. two sources

    1258

A Sufi order named for Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (d. 1258), who studied with Ibn Mashīsh and taught in Tunis and then Alexandria. In its own account its chain reaches the Prophet through al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī. Its many branches stretch from Morocco to Egypt, the Levant and East Africa.

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 (11)

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

Wafāʾiyyaالوفائيةd. 765/1364

No chain is recorded for this branch in the sources read.

Zarrūqiyyaالزروقيةd. 899/1493-4

No chain is recorded for this branch in the sources read.

Jazūliyyaالجزوليةd. 870/1465 · 3 names
  1. محمد الشريف

  2. two sources

    محمد بن سليمان الجزولي1465

  3. one source

    عبد العزيز التباع
ʿĪsāwiyyaالعيساويةd. 930/1524

No chain is recorded for this branch in the sources read.

Nāṣiriyyaالناصريةd. 1085/1674

No chain is recorded for this branch in the sources read.

Darqāwiyyaالدرقاويةd. 1239/1823 · 2 names
  1. علي الجمال1780

  2. one source

    العربي الدرقاوي1823
Būzīdiyyaالبوزيديةd. 1229/1814 (TDV)

No chain is recorded for this branch in the sources read.

ʿAlawiyyaالعلاويةearly 20th c.; founder d. 1934 · Mostaganem · 5 names
  1. محمد البوزيدي1909

  2. two sources

    أحمد بن مصطفى العلاوي1934

  3. the community's own account

    عدة بن تونس

  4. the community's own account

    المهدي بن تونس

  5. one source

    خالد بن تونس
Hibriyya / Belqāʾidiyyaالهبرية البلقائدية6 names
  1. محمد بن قدور الوكيلي

  2. the community's own account

    محمد الهبري

  3. one source

    محمد بلقايد1998

  4. the community's own account

    محمد عبد اللطيف بلقايد2025

  5. one source

    محمد نور الدين بلقايد

  6. the community's own account

    إلياس عمروش
Ḥabībiyya (Darqāwī-Ḥabībī)الحبيبيةMuhammad ibn al-Ḥabīb d. 1972 (Wikipedia) · Meknès · 3 names
  1. محمد بن الحبيب1972

  2. one source

    مولاي هاشم البلغيتي

  3. one source

    مولاي عبد الكبير البلغيتي
Hāshimiyya (Shādhilī-Darqāwī-Hāshimī)الهاشميةfounder 1881-1961 · Damascus · 3 names
  1. محمد بن يلس1927

  2. two sources

    محمد الهاشمي التلمساني1961

  3. the community's own account

    محمد النبهان1972
5 more
Madaniyyaالمدنيةd. 1263/1847 · 4 names
  1. العربي الدرقاوي1823

  2. the community's own account

    محمد حسن ظافر المدني1847

  3. the community's own account

    مسعود الفاسي1872

  4. one source

    عبد القادر الجزائري1883
Yashruṭiyyaاليشرطيةzāwiya 1862; founder d. 1899 · 2 names
  1. العربي الدرقاوي1823

  2. one source

    علي نور الدين اليشرطي1899
Fāsiyyaالفاسية

No chain is recorded for this branch in the sources read.

Ḥāmidiyya Shādhiliyyaالحامدية الشاذليةc. 140 years old per Youm7 2025 · 2 names
  1. سلامة الراضي

  2. the community's own account · omits: intermediaries the data does not name

    الحسين حامد سلامة الراضي
Ṣiddīqiyya Shādhiliyyaالصديقية الشاذليةal-Ghumārī d. 1993 · 4 names
  1. أبو الحسن الشاذلي1258

  2. the community's own account · omits: intermediaries the data does not name

    عبد الله بن الصديق الغماري1993

  3. the community's own account

    علي جمعة

  4. the community's own account

    مجدي عاشور
Burhāniyya (Burhāniyya-Disūqiyya-Shādhiliyya)البرهانية الدسوقية الشاذليةfounder 1902-1983 · Khartoum / Omdurman · 4 names
  1. أحمد العربي الشرنوبي

  2. the community's own account

    محمد عثمان عبده البرهاني1983

  3. the community's own account

    إبراهيم محمد عثمان2003

  4. two sources

    محمد إبراهيم محمد عثمان

Living today

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

How to cite

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

Not yet confirmed (49)

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

  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Listed in the order's own silsila as relayed by Wikipedia from shazuli.com; the order's own page was not read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) One forum silsila puts Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Bāshā directly under al-Darqāwī; no other source read names him.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Same forum silsila: al-Wakīlī under al-Bāshā.
  • (Shādhiliyya) tarajm.com: al-Hibrī and al-Būzīdī were both trained by Ibn Qaddūr al-Wakīlī.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Forum silsila only.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Forum silsila: Muḥammad al-Hibrī is the son of al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Hibrī.
  • (Shādhiliyya) ʿAbd al-Laṭīf Belqāʾid led the zawiya after Muḥammad Belqāʾid (d. 1998); the zawiya's speakers call him 'our shaykh'.
  • (Shādhiliyya) MA thesis: Ben Brīka took the way from Muḥammad Belqāʾid; the zawiya's biographic block gives the same.
  • (Shādhiliyya) MA thesis: renewed the way at the hands of ʿAbd al-Laṭīf, entered khalwa with him, received the Greatest Name.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Thesis names Amrouche among Ben Brīka's students.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Thesis names Maʿzūz among Ben Brīka's students.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Amrouche calls him 'our master and shaykh' in a Sept 2025 talk; formal bond not stated.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Maʿzūz calls ʿAbd al-Laṭīf 'our shaykh' in talks of 2015-2017.
  • (Shādhiliyya) tarajm.com: al-Būzīdī received the secret from al-Wakīlī and succeeded him at the zawiya on Jabal Kirkar.
  • (Shādhiliyya) tarajm.com: Ibn Yallas took the way second from al-Būzīdī, who authorised him to guide.
  • (Shādhiliyya) tarajm.com: Ibn Yallas took the way first from Muḥammad al-Hibrī.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Wikipedia: after Ibn Yallas died in 1927 Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī named al-Hāshimī his deputy for the Middle East.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Wikipedia lists him among al-Hāshimī's four main disciples (relaying Guezzou 2009, not read).
  • (Shādhiliyya) Wikipedia lists him among al-Hāshimī's four main disciples (relaying Guezzou 2009, not read).
  • (Shādhiliyya) Wikipedia lists him among al-Hāshimī's four main disciples (relaying Guezzou 2009, not read).
  • (Shādhiliyya) Wikipedia lists him among al-Hāshimī's four main disciples (relaying Guezzou 2009, not read).
  • (Shādhiliyya) A German reference, not read in full, lists ʿAdda Bentounès as al-ʿAlawī's first successor after 1934; not read in full.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Same German reference lists Mahdī Bentounès after ʿAdda; one source.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Taleb: Ẓāfir al-Madanī is a successor of al-Darqāwī (as relayed by Amrouche).
  • (Shādhiliyya) Taleb n. 110 (from Abū Zayyān al-Ghārisī, Kanz al-asrār): Masʿūd al-Fāsī succeeded Ẓāfir al-Madanī.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Youm7: the order's work continued through his sons down to the present shaykh al-Ḥusayn Ḥāmid Salāma al-Rāḍī.
  • (Shādhiliyya) The order's account (press) gives a chain to al-Shādhilī through al-Ghumārī; the intermediate links are not given in the sources read.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Al-Watan: the order's chain reaches al-Shādhilī through al-Ghumārī; ʿAlī Jumʿa is its shaykh.
  • (Shādhiliyya) Al-Watan 16 Sep 2025: ʿAlī Jumʿa appointed Majdī ʿĀshūr general deputy and charged him with leading the order after him (designation, not yet an office).
  • (Shādhiliyya) The Burhāniyya's own chain places Ibrāhīm al-Disūqī after al-Shādhilī; recorded as the order's account.
  • (Shādhiliyya) The order's own chain.
  • (Shādhiliyya) The order's own chain.
  • (Shādhiliyya) The order's own chain; its page also says he entered the Burhāniyya at about ten through his uncle, and that a teacher later came 'sent by' al-Disūqī.
  • (Shādhiliyya) The order's page: his son Ibrāhīm led after the founder's death in 1983 and died in 2003.
Where the sources differ (5)
  • (Shādhiliyya)
    • Some versions of the order's chain are shorter: Hasan, Jābir, Saʿīd al-Ghazwānī, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Madanī, Ibn Mashīsh (per order-affiliated blogs); another list runs Nūr al-Dīn ʿAlī, Fakhr al-Dīn, Taqī al-Dīn al-Fuqayr, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān.
  • (Shādhiliyya)
    • TDV Şâzeliyye names no Abū Madyan link for the chain and mentions Abū Madyan only as the subject of a qaṣīda commentary by Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh and Ibn ʿArabī.
  • (Shādhiliyya)
    • The forum silsila inserts al-Ḥājj Muḥammad al-Hibrī (father) between al-Wakīlī and Muḥammad al-Hibrī.
  • (Shādhiliyya)
    • The article on Wikipedia gives the full name Ṭarīqa al-Burhāniyya al-Disūqiyya al-Shādhiliyya but no chain.
  • (Shādhiliyya)
    • No other claimant to the headship of this branch was found in the public sources read.