The Chain of Transmission (Silsila)

What Does the Name of the Order Mean?



Our Order is named after two luminaries in our chain of transmission. The first is Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Ṣiddīq al-Ghumārī (1295 – 1254 AH) – the father of Sayyid ‘Abdullah ibn Ṣiddīq al-Ghumārī (1328 – 1413 AH), and the second is the Grand Imam of the Path Abu al-Ḥasan al-Shādhilī (571 – 656 AH).

Chain of Transmission of the Siddīqiyya-Shādhiliyya Order

Direct, unbroken chains of transmissions are one of the hallmarks of the Islamic sciences. While the early generations of Muslims used these chains of transmissions largely to verify hadith, they became norms in every science and discipline to establish veracity and human-human interaction.

Imam Muslim (d. 261/875) records in the introduction of his Ṣaḥīḥ that ‘Abdullah ibn Mubārak (d. 181/797) said, “chains of transmissions are part of this religion (dīn), and were it not for the chains of transmission, anyone could say anything they wanted.”

Whether in hadith sciences, Quranic recitation, Islamic law, or the spiritual science, chains of transmissions demonstrate the inherited nature of our faith tradition as well as the importance of taking knowledge from living, qualified scholars.

The following is a partial chain of transmission of the Siddīqiyya-Shādhiliyya Ṭarīqa. It is partial because there are too many branches to highlight in a simple format. It is, however, complete and connected in an unbroken chain to our beloved Messenger Muḥammad ﷺ which is the point when presenting a chain of transmission related to the Islamic sciences.

Shaykh ‘Alī took the Shādhili ṭarīqa from three illustrious sages: the reviver of ṭasawwuf in Egypt in 20th century – Shaykh Muḥammad Zaki al-Dīn Ibrahīm (d. 1998), the noble minister and defender of traditional Islam whom I had the honor of meeting several times; Shaykh Ḥasan ‘Abbās Zakī (d. 2014); and the great ḥadīth master and saint Shaykh ‘Abdullah ibn Siddīq al-Ghumārī (d. 1413/1993). May Allāh be pleased with them all.

The Chain (Silsila)

1. Shaykh ‘Abdullah ibn Siddīq al-Ghumārī (1328 – 1413 AH) took the path from,
2. His father, Sayyid Muḥammad ibn Ṣiddīq al-Ghumārī (1295 – 1354 AH), from whence comes the name Ṣiddīqiyya.
3. Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Fāsī (d.1326 AH)
4. ‘Abd al-Wāḥid al-Bannānī (d. 1285 AH)
5. Muḥammad ibn al-Ghālī Ayyūb (d. 1273 AH)
6. Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd al-Mu’min (the grandfather of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣddīq al-Ghumārī) (1200 – 1262 AH)
7. Muḥammad al-‘Arabī bin Aḥmad al-Darqāwi (1152 – 1239 AH)
8. ‘Alī ibn ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-’Umrānī al-Fāsī, known as al-Jamal (d. 1194 AH)
9. al-‘Arabī ibn Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh (1079 – 1166 AH)
10. Aḥmad ibn ‘Abd Allāh (1042 – 1120 AH)
11. Qāsim al-Khaṣāṣī (1002 – 1083 AH)
12. Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd Allāh al-Fāsī M’an (978 – 1062 AH)
13. ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad al-Fāsī (972 – 1036 AH), who took from his brother
14. Yūsuf ibn Muḥammad al-Fāsī (938 – 1013 AH)
15. ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Majdhūb (909 – 976 AH)
16. ‘Alī al-Dawwār (d. 947 AH)
17. Ibrāhīm al-Fahhām al-Zarhūnī (d. 926 AH)
18. Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Zarrūq al-Fāsī (846 –899 AH)
19. Abī al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn ‘Uqba al-Ḥadramī (d. 895 AH)
20. Abī Zakariyya Yaḥya ibn Aḥmad (798 – 857 AH)
21. ‘Alī Wafā (761– 807 AH), who took from his father,
22. Muḥammad Wafā (702 – 765 AH)
23. Abi Sulaymān Dāwūd ibn ‘Umar al-Bākhili (d. 733 AH)
24. Tāj al-Dīn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Karīm Ibn Aṭā’ Allāh al-Sakandarī (d. 709 AH)
25. Aḥmad Mursī Abī al-‘Abbās (d. 686 AH)
26. Abu al-Ḥasan al-Shādhiliī (571 – 656 AH), the eponym of this order
27. Muḥammad ‘Abd al-Salām ibn Mashīsh (d. 622 AH)
28. ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Madanī al-‘Aṭtār al-Zayyāt
29. Tuqay al-Dīn al-Fuqayr, ‘Abd ar-Raḥmān al-Nahra wandī (d. 594 AH)
30. Fakhr al-Dīn Muḥammad
31. Nūr al-Dīn Abī al-Ḥasan ‘Ali
32. Tāj al-Dīn Muḥammad
33. Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad (who died in the land of the Turks)
34. Zayn al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī
35. Abu Isḥāq Ibrāhīm al-Baṣrī
36. Abu al-Qāsim Aḥmad al-Marawānī
37. Abu Muḥammad Sa‘īd
38. S‘ad
39. Abu Muḥammad Fatḥ al-Su‘ūd
40. Sa‘īd al-Ghazwānī
41. Abu Muḥammad Jābir ibn ‘Abdullah al-Anṣārī
42. Our Master al-Ḥassan (Allāh give him peace)
43. His father and our Master ‘Ali ibn Abī Ṭālib (Allāh give him peace)
44. OUR BELOVED MESSENGER MUḤAMMAD ﷺ

    May we benefit from the remembrance of our pious ancestors, and may we hold firm to their teachings. Amīn.

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