بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Ijāzah of the Ḥanafī–Māturīdī Chain
(Silsilah al-Māturīdiyyah al-Ḥanafiyyah)
- Prophet Muḥammad ﷺ
- ʿAbd Allāh ibn Masʿūd Raḍiyallāhu ʿAnhu (Madīnah, d. 32 AH)
- ʿAlqamah ibn Qays an-Nakhaʿī (Kūfah, d. 62 AH)
- Ibrāhīm an-Nakhaʿī (Kūfah, d. 96 AH)
- Ḥammād ibn Abī Sulaymān (Kūfah, d. 120 AH)
- Imām Abū Ḥanīfa an-Nuʿmān (Kūfah, d. 150 AH)
- Imām Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ash-Shaybānī (Baghdād, d. 189 AH)
- Imām Abū Sulaymān al-Jūzjānī (Afghanistan, 3rd c. AH)
- Imām Naṣr ibn Yaḥyā al-Balkhī (Afghanistan, d. 268 AH)
- Imām Abū Manṣūr al-Māturīdī (Samarqand, d. 333 AH)
- Imām Abū al-Muʿīn an-Nasafī (Nasaf, d. 508 AH)
- Imām Najm ad-Dīn ʿUmar an-Nasafī (Nasaf, d. 537 AH)
- Imām Abū al-Barakāt Ḥāfiẓ ad-Dīn an-Nasafī (Transoxiana, d. 710 AH)
- Imām Ḥusām ad-Dīn as-Sighnāghī (Sighnāq, d. 714 AH)
- Imām Saʿd ad-Dīn Masʿūd at-Taftāzānī (Taftāzān, d. 792 AH)
- as-Sayyid ash-Sharīf ʿAlī al-Jurjānī (Jurjān, d. 816 AH) ⟡
⟡ Conclusion of the formal Māturīdī scholastic kalām lineage - al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī (Cairo, d. 852 AH) ✦
✦ Commencement of the Egyptian Ḥadīth ijāzah stream - al-Qāḍī Zakariyyā al-Anṣārī (Cairo, d. 926 AH)
- Imām Shams ad-Dīn Muḥammad ar-Ramlī (Egypt, d. 1004 AH)
- ash-Shaykh aṣ-Ṣafī Aḥmad al-Qushāshī (Madīnah, d. 1071 AH)
- ash-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (Madīnah, d. 1101 AH) ✧
✧ Point of merger — convergence of kalām, ḥadīth, fiqh, and sulūk - Shams ad-Dīn al-Budayrī ad-Dimyāṭī (Egypt, d. 1140 AH)
- al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī ash-Shunuwānī (Egypt, 12th–13th c. AH)
- Imām Muḥammad al-Amīr al-Kabīr al-Kabāwī (Egypt, d. 1232 AH)
- al-Musnid Muḥammad Yāsīn al-Fādānī (Makkah, d. 1410 AH)
- Mawlānā ʿAlāʾ ad-Dīn ibn Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Afghānī (Ḥijāz, 20th c. CE)
- Shaykh Salīm Gaibie (South Africa, 20th–21st c. CE)
- Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ibrāhīm al-Madānī al-Ḥaḍramī (Madīnah/Yemen, 21st c. CE)
- Dr. Yusof Mutahar Siddiqui al-Ḥanafī al-Māturīdī an-Naqshbandi (Australia/Afghanistan, 21st c. CE)
May Allah bless this sacred chain and those who uphold its legacy. 🌿
