The Chain of Shaikhs of Tariqa Kasnazaniyya
The Chain of Shaikhs of Ṭarīqa Kasnazāniyya
Ṭarīqa ʿAliyyah Qādiriyyah Kasnazāniyya has a continued silsila of Shaikhs who are spiritually connected to each other and ultimately to the Prophet [ṣallā Allah taʿālā ʿalayhi wa sallam]. The silsila of Shaikhs of Ṭarīqa Kasnazāniyya has two lines that branched from Imām ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib. In the first line, which Shaikh Muḥammad calls “the Golden Line,” the Masterhood of Ṭarīqa was transferred through Imām al‑Ḥussein, son and student of Imām ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib, and in the second line, the Masterhood of Ṭarīqa was transferred via another of Imām ʿAlī’s students, Shaikh Ḥasan al‑Baṣrī. Both lines then re‑unite at Shaikh Maʿrūf al‑Karkhī who was a student of both Imām ʿAlī ar‑Ridhā of the Golden Line and Shaikh Dāwūd aṭ‑Ṭa’ī of the second line. This is the silsila of Shaikhs of Ṭarīqa Kasnazāniyya:
Allah |
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to Prophet Muḥammad [ṣallā Allah taʿālā ʿalayhi wa sallam] |
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to Imām ʿAlī bin Abī Ṭālib |
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The golden line |
The second line |
to Imām al‑Ḥussein |
to Shaikh al-Ḥasan al‑Baṣrī |
to Imām ʿAlī Zayn al‑ʿĀbidīn |
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to Imām Muḥammad al‑Bāqir |
to Shaikh Ḥabīb al‑ʿAjamī |
to Imām Jaʿfar aṣ‑Ṣādiq |
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to Imām Mūsā al‑Kādhim |
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to Imām ʿAlī ar‑Ridhā |
to Shaikh Dāwūd aṭ‑Ṭā’ī |
to Shaikh Maʿrūf al‑Karkhī |
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To Shaikh as‑Sarī as‑Saqaṭī, to Shaikh Junayd al‑Baghdādī, to Shaikh Abī Bakr ash‑Shiblī, to Shaikh ʿAbd al‑Wāḥid al‑Yamānī, to Shaikh Abī Faraj aṭ‑Ṭarsūsī, to Shaikh ʿAlī al‑Hagārī, to Shaikh Abī Saʿīd al‑Makhzūmī, to Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al‑Gaylānī, to Shaikh ʿAbd ar‑Razzāq al‑Gaylānī, to Shaikh Dāwūd aṭḥ‑Ṭḥānī, to Shaikh Muḥammad Gharībullah, to Shaikh ʿAbd al‑Fattāḥ as‑Sayyāḥ, to Shaikh Muḥammad Qāsim, to Shaikh Muḥammad Ṣādiq, to Shaikh Ḥussein al‑Baḥrānī, to Shaikh Aḥmad al‑Iḥsā’ī, to Shaikh Ismāʿīl al‑Wilyānī, to Shaikh Muḥyī ad‑Dīn Karkūk, to Shaikh ʿAbd aṣ‑Ṣamad Gala Zarda, to Shaikh Ḥussein Qāzān Qāya, to Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir Qāzān Qāya, to Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm Shāh al‑Kasnazān, to Shaikh ʿAbd al-Qādir al‑Kasnazān, to Shaikh Ḥussein al‑Kasnazān, to Shaikh ʿAbd al-Karīm al‑Kasnazān, to Shaikh Shaikh Muḥammad al-Muḥammad al‑Kasnazān, and to the present Master Shaikh Shamsuddīn Muḥammad Nahro al-Kasnazān. |