We wanted to share with you a wonderful Youtube Channel from the “School of Knowledge and Learning”.
Their self proclaimed interest is “Meeting Shuyukh And Awliya And Increasing My Knowledge On The Awliya“. They have many videos with rare footage of venerable Shaykhs (may Allah protect Read More »
“Although for the last eight hundred years Sufism has been characterized by Sufi orders (tariqah) under the guidance of Sufi shaykhs, during the formative period (from the eighth to the eleventh centuries C.E.) the orders did not yet exist… The second major period of Sufism’s history was when Read More »
Imam Junayd ibn Muhammad Abu al-Qasim al-Khazzaz al-Baghdadi (d. 297 AH/ 909-910 CE)
By GF Haddad and Dr. Alan Godlas
Al-Junayd ibn Muhammad ibn al-Junayd, Abu al-Qasim al-Qawariri al-Khazzaz al-Nahawandi al-Baghdadi al-Shafi`i (d. 298). The Imam of the World in his time, shaykh of the Sufis and “Diadem of the Read More »
The Shajarahs (Lineage Trees) of the Mujaddidi, Naqshbandi, Qadiri, Chishti, and Shadhili Orders. Document of the lines of teachers through whom Shaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashid’s predeccessors trace their spiritual descent from the Prophet Mohammed (peace and blessings be upon him).
| Name | Dates | Place Born/Lived | Place Died |
|---|---|---|---|
| NAQSHBANDĪ-MUJADDIDĪ SILSILA | |||
| The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) | 570-632 | Mecca, Medina | Medina |
| The Caliph Hadrat Abū Bakr as–Siddīq (r.a.) | 571-634 | Mecca, Medina | Medina |
| Hadrat Salmān Fārsī(r.a.) | d. 655 | Isfahan (Persia), Syria, Medina | Jerusalem |
| HadratQāsim ibn Muhammad ibn Abī Bakr (r.a.) | 655-726 | Medina | Qudayd (near Medina) |
| HadratImām Jā‘far as–Sādiq (r.a.) | 702-765 | Medina | Medina |
| HadratShaykh Abū Yazīd Tayfūr Bistāmī(r.a.) | d. 875 | Syria, Persia | Damascus or Bistam (Persia) |
| HadratAbū’l–Hasan ‘Alī ibn Ahmad Kharaqānī (r.a.) | 953 or 962/64-1033 | Kharaqan (near Bistam, in Khurasan, Persia) | Kharaqan |
| HadratAbū ‘Alī Fārmadī Tūsī (r.a.) | d. 1084 | Khurasan (Persia) | Farmad(ner Tus, Persia) |
| HadratAbū Ya‘qūb Yūsuf Hamadānī (r.a.) | 1048-1140 | Buzanjird (near Hamadan, Persia) | Merv (Persia) |
| HadratKhwājah ‘Abd al-Khāliq Ghujduwānī (r.a.) | d. 1179 or 1220 | Ghujduwan(near Bukhara) | |
| HadratMawlānā ‘Ārif Rīwgarī (r.a.) | d. 1219 or 1239 | Bukhara | Riwakar (near Bukhara) |
| HadratKhwājah Mahmūd Abū al-Khayr Anjīr Faghnawī (r.a.) | d. 1245 or 1272 or 1317 | Bukhara | Qilit (near Bukhara) |
| Hadrat‘Azīzān ‘Alī Rāmitanī (r.a.) | d. 1239 or 1315 or 1321 | Bukhara | Khwarazm (Central Asia) |
| HadratMawlānā Muhammad Bāba Sammāsī (r.a.) | d. 1340 or 1354 | Bukhara | Samas (near Bukhara) |
| HadratSayyid Amīr Kulāl (r.a.) | d. 1370 | Bukhara | Sukhar (near Bukhara) |
| HadratKhwājah Muhammad Bahā’uddīn Shāh Naqshband (r.a.) (Note: uwaisi connection to HadratSayyid ‘Abd al-Bāri Shāh(r.a.)) | 1317-1389 | Bukhara | Bukhara |
| HadratKhwājah Allā’uddīn al-‘Attār(r.a.) | d. 1400 | Khwarazm | Jaganyan (near Bukhara) |
| HadratMawlānā Ya‘qūb Charkhī(r.a.) | d. 1447 | Charkh (Afghanistan) | Hisar (near Dushanbe, Tajikistan) |
| HadratKhwājah ‘Ubaydullāh Ahrār(r.a.) | 1404-1490 | Tashkent (Central Asia) | Kaman Kashan near Samarqand |
| HadratMawlānā Muhammad az-Zāhid Wakhshī (r.a.) | d. 1529 | Central Asia | Samarqand |
| HadratMawlānā Darwīsh Muhammad (r.a.) | d. 1562 | Central Asia | Samarqand |
| HadratMawlānā Muhammad Khwājah | d. 1600 | Bukhara | Shash (Afghanistan) |
| Amkanagī (r.a.) | |||
| HadratKhwājah Muhammad Bāqībillāh (r.a.) | 1564-1603 | Kabul, Delhi | Delhi |
| HadratImām Rabbānī Shaykh Ahmad Farūqī Sirhindī (r.a.) | 1564-1625 | Sirnhind (India) | Sirhind |
| HadratĀdam Banūrī (r.a.) | d. 1643 | Medina | |
| HadratSayyid ‘Abdullāh Akbarābādī (r.a.) | Agra (India) | ||
| HadratShāh ‘Abd ar-Rahīm (r.a.) | d. 1719 | Delhi | Delhi |
| HadratShāh Walīullāh (r.a.) | 1702-1762 | Delhi, Medina | Delhi |
| HadratShāh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz (r.a.) | 1746-1824 | Delhi | Delhi |
| HadratSayyid Ahmad Shahīd (r.a.) | 1786-1831 | Bareilly (India), Delhi | Balakot (India) |
| HadratSūfī Nūr Muhammad (r.a.) | Niamur (Bangladesh) | ||
| HadratSūfī Fātih ‘Alī Uwaysī (r.a.) | d. 1886 | Calcutta | |
| HadratMawlānā Ghulām Salmānī(r.a.) | d. 1912 | Phuphura (West Bengal) | |
| HadratSayyid ‘Abd al-Bāri Shāh(r.a.) | 1859-1900 | Balgadhi (Bengal) | Bandel (West Bengal) |
| HadratHāfīz Hāmid Hasan ‘Alawī(r.a.) | 1871/2-1959 | Gonda (India) | |
| HadratMuhammad Sa’īd Khān(r.a.) | 1907-1976 | Azamgarth (Inda) | |
| HadratAzad Rasool (r.a.) | 1921-2006 | Rajistan (India) | Delhi |
| HadratShaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashīd | 1942- | USA | |
| The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) | 570-632 | Mecca, Medina | Medina |
| The Caliph Hadrat‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib(r.a.) | 598-661 | Mecca, Medina | Kufah |
| Hadrat Imām Husayn (r.a.) | 626-680 | Medina | Karbala |
| Hadrat Shaykh Muhammad Jārbadī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Sa‘īd Qīrwānī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Fatih. Mas‘ūdī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Abūal-Qāsim Mīrwānī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Abū Is’hāq Ibrāhīm Basrī(r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Qutbuddīn Mahmūd Qazwīnī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Shamsuddīn (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Tājuddīn (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Abū al-Hasan ‘Alī(r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Taqīuddīn Sūfī(r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh Sharafuddīn Madanī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Shaykh ‘Abd as-Salām bin Mashīsh (r.a.) | d.1228 | Fez | southeast of Tetuan (Morocco) |
| Hadrat Shaykh Nūruddīn Abū al-Hasan Shādhilī(r.a.) | 1196-1258 | Ghumara (Morocco), Fez, Alexandria (Egypt) | Humaythra (Egypt) |
| uwaisi connection | |||
| HadratSayyid Abd al-Bāri Shāh(r.a.) | 1859-1900 | Balgadhi(Bengal), Calcutta | Bandel (West Bengal) |
| HadratHāfīz Hāmid Hasan ‘Alawī(r.a.) | 1871/2-1959 | Gonda (India) | |
| HadratMuhammad Sa’īd Khān(r.a.) | 1907-1976 | Azamgarh (India) | |
| HadratAzad Rasool (r.a.) | 1921-2006 | Rajistan (India) | Delhi |
| HadratShaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashīd | 1942- | USA | |
| CHISHTĪ SILSILA | |||
| The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) | 570-632 | Mecca, Medina | Medina |
| The Caliph Hadrat‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib(r.a.) | 598-661 | Mecca, Medina | Kufah |
| Hadrat Hasan Basrī (r.a.) | 642-728 | Medina | Basrah |
| Hadrat Abū al-Fadl ‘Abd al-Wāhid ibn Zayd (r.a.) | d.793 | Makkah | |
| Hadrat Abū al-Fayd Fudayl ibn ‘Iyād (r.a.) | d.803 | Balkh | |
| Hadrat Ibrāhīm ibn Adham Balkhī(r.a.) | d.777/9 | ||
| Hadrat Khwājah SadīduddīnHudhayfah | |||
| Mar‘ashī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Khwājah Amīnuddīn Abū Hubayrah | Basrah | ||
| Basrī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Khwājah Mumshād ‘Ulw Dīnawarī (r.a.) | Dinawar(Persia), Basrah | ||
| Hadrat Khwājah Abū Is’hāq Shāmī Chishtī (r.a.) | d.940 | Syria, Chisht (Afghanistan) | Akka (Syria) |
| or 966 | |||
| Hadrat Khwājah Abū Ahmad ibn Farasnafa (r.a.) | 873/4-966 | Chisht | Chisht |
| Hadrat Khwājah Abū Muhammad ibn Ahmad (r.a.) | d.1020 | Chisht | Chisht |
| Hadrat Khwājah Abū Yūsuf Chishtī (r.a.) | 985-1066/7 | Chisht | Chisht |
| Hadrat Muhammad Mawdūd Chishtī (r.a.)) | d.1133 | Herat, Balkh, Bukhara | |
| Hadrat Hajjī Sharīf Zindānī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Khwājah ‘Uthmān Harvānī(r.a.) | Harvan (Nishapur, Persia) | ||
| Hadrat Khwājah Mu‘īnuddīn Chishtī (r.a.) | 1142-1236 | Seistan (Persia) | Ajmer |
| Hadrat Qutbuddīn Bakhtiyār Kākī(r.a.) | 1174-1235 | Ush (Transoxania), Delhi | Mihrawli (near Delhi) |
| Hadrat Farīduddīn Mas‘ūd Ganj-i Shakar (r.a.) | 1175-1265 | Multan, Hansi, Pakpatan (near Lahore) | Pakpatan |
| Hadrat Khwājah Nizāmuddīn Awliyā’ (r.a.) | 1243/4-1325 | Badaun (East of Delhi) | Delhi |
| Hadrat Nasīruddīn Chirāgh-i-Delhi(r.a.) | 1276/7-1356 | Ayodhya (India), Delhi | Delhi |
| Hadrat Kamāluddīn ‘Allāma (r.a.) | Gujurat (India) | ||
| Hadrat Sirajuddīn (r.a.) | d.1411 | Bengal, Delhi | Ahmadabad (India) |
| Hadrat ‘Ilmuddīn (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Mahmūd (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Jamāluddīn (r.a.) | Hansi (near Delhi) | ||
| Hadrat Hasan (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Muhammad (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Muhammad Yahya Madanī(r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Mawlānā Kalīmullāh Jahānābādī (r.a.) | d.1729 | Delhi | |
| Hadrat Mawlānā Nizāmuddīn (r.a.) | Awrangabad, (India) | ||
| Hadrat Mawlānā Fakhruddīn (r.a.) | d.1784 | Delhi | |
| Hadrat Mawlānā Shāh Niyāz Ahmad (r.a.) | d.1834 | Delhi | Bareilly |
| Hadrat Mawlānā Shaykh Miskīn(r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Mawlānā Nijābat ‘Ali Shāh(r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Abū-Hamīd Karīm Bakhsh(r.a.) | |||
| HadratSayyid ‘Abd al-Bāri Shāh(r.a.) | 1859-1900 | Balgadhi (Bengal), Calcutta | Bandel (West Bengal) |
| HadratHāfīz Hāmid Hasan ‘Alawī(r.a.) | 1871/2-1959 | Gonda (India) | |
| HadratMuhammad Sa’īd Khān(r.a.) | 1907-1976 | Azamgarh (India) | |
| HadratAzad Rasool (r.a.) | 1921-2006 | Rajistan (India) | Delhi |
| HadratShaykh Ahmed Abdur Rashīd | 1942- | USA | |
| The Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.s.) | 570-632 | Mecca, Medina | Medina |
| The Caliph Hadrat‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib (r.a.) | 598-661 | Mecca, Medina | Kufah |
| Hadrat Imām Husayn (r.a.) | 626-680 | Medina | Karbala |
| Hadrat Imām ‘Alī Zayn al-‘Ābidīn(r.a.) | d.712 | ||
| Hadrat Imām Muhammad | d.731 | ||
| Bāqir (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Imām Jā’far as–Sādiq (r.a.) | 702-765 | Medina | Medina |
| Hadrat Imām Mūsā al-Kāzim (r.a.) | d.799 | ||
| Hadrat Imām Mūsā Ridā (r.a.) | d.818 | ||
| Hadrat Ma‘rūf Karkhī (r.a.) | d.815/16 | Iran, Baghdad | Baghdad |
| Hadrat Sarī Saqatī (r.a.) | 769-867/68 | Baghdad | Baghdad |
| Hadrat Junayd Baghdādī (r.a.) | d.910 | Baghdad | Baghdad |
| Hadrat Shaykh Abū Bakr Shiblī(r.a.) | 861-946 | Baghdad, Samara | Baghdad |
| Hadrat Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Tamīmī (r.a.) | d.1034 | ||
| Hadrat Abū al-Fadl Abū al-Wāhid Tamīmī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Abū Farah Tartūsī (r.a.) | |||
| Hadrat Abū al-Hasan Farshī (r.a.) | d.1093 | ||
| Hadrat Abū Sa‘īd al-Mubārak Mukharrimī(r.a.) | d.1119 | ||
| Hadrat Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qādir Jīlānī(r.a.) | 1077/78-1116 | Jilan (Persia) | Baghdad |
| uwaisi connection | |||
| HadratSayyid ‘Abd al-Bāri Shāh(r.a.) | 1859-1900 | Balgadhi (Bengal) | Bandel (West Bengal) |
| HadratHāfīz Hāmid Hasan ‘Alawī(r.a.) | 1871/2-1959 | Gonda (India) | |
| HadratMuhammad Sa’īd Khān(r.a.) | 1907-1976 | Azamgarh (India) | |
| HadratAzad Rasool (r.a.) | 1921-2006 | Rajistan (India) | Delhi |
| HadratShaykh Ahmed Abdur Rash?d | 1942- | USA |
Hazrat Abdul Bari Shah (r.a.) was a great saint and a truly universal being (insan-i-kamil). Over time, his importance and his contribution to Sufic thought and action is being more and more recognized throughout the world.
Hazrat Sayyid Abdul Bari Shah (r.a.) was born in 1859 A.D. in Read More »
Falling in love is one beautiful realities of Sufism and there are many ‘love stories’ among the shuyukh. Four of my personal experiences with this unique and pure love involve, of course, my beloved Shaykh Hazrat Azad Rasool of N.Delhi. The story of our meeting and our 30+ years together will be the subject and foundation of an upcoming publication (book).
Another story is about my relationship with Shaykh Ahmed Kuftaro , the Grand Mufti of Syria; which, insh’Allah will be detailed at a later time; Dede Effendim Sulieman Loras Chelbi, the shaykh of the Mevlevi in Konya , a man of such sweetness and simple love that I found myself always with tears in my eyes when in his presence. His words to me and his adab remains a daily guide to a character one aspires to have. Finally is a simple but beautiful story about the honor I had to sit at the feet of Hazrati Shaykh Osaman Sirrajuddin, a Naqshbandi who held me in the firm grip of love and blessed me with the strength to rise to new challenges. Read More »
Shaykh Osman with Shaykh Abdur Rashid 1992, Turkey
In remembrance of Shaykh Osman ( may Allah protect his secrets)
“I had the honor to sit at the feet of Hazrati Shaykh Osman Sirrajuddin, a Naqshbandi who held me in the firm grip of love and blessed me with the strength Read More »
Inside New Tomb
View of Humaythra Valley, on Egypt ‘s Red Sea coast.
Homaythraa Valley
Overview from Humaythraa mountain.
Sheikh Abul Hassan Al Shazali village in the heart of the East Desert