Sufi teaching proceeds by means of a teacher-student relationship. Each teacher-student relationship forms a link in a chain which connects any authentic Sufi Order back to the Prophet Muhammad (SAW). This chain of initiation or silsilah is called the Lineage Tree (Shajrah’i Tayyaba).
The silsilah of the School of Sufi Teaching connects the current Shaykh of the Order, Hazrat Shaykh Hamid Hasan, to the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) through the five main Sufi Orders, Naqshbandi, Mujaddidi, Chishti, Shadhili and Qadiri. Each of these is named after the name of a prominent Shaykh of the order.
The Naqsbandi-Mujaddidi silsila is a special branch of the Naqshbandi silsila, which gets its name from Shaykh Ahmed Faruqi Sirhindi (1564-1624). He was known as Mujaddid Alf Thani – The Renewer of the Millenium – because he was said to have renewed Islam and Sufism for the next thousand years.
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| Naqshbandi | Chishti | Shadhili | Qadiri | |
| Hazrat Abu Bakr as-Siddiq | Hazrat Salman Farsi | Hazrat Qasim Bin Muhammad Bin Abu Bakr | Hazrat Imam Jafar as-Sadiq | Hazrat Shaykh Abu-Yazid Tayfur Bistami | Hazrat Abu al-Hasan ‘Ali ibn Ahmad Kharaqani | Hazrat Abu Ali Farmadi Tusi | Hazrat Abu Ya’qub Yusuf al-Hamadani | Hazrat Khwajah ‘Abd al-Khaliq Ghujduwani | Hazrat Mawlana ‘Arif Riwgari | Hazrat Khwajah Mahmud Abu al-Khayr Anjir Faghnawi | Hazrat ‘Azizan ‘Ali Ramitani | Hazrat Mawlana Muhammad Baba Sammasi | Hazrat Sayyid Amir Kulal | Hazrat Khwaja Muhammad Baha’uddin Shah Naqshband | Hazrat ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib | Hazrat Hasan Basri | Hazrat Abu al-Fadl ‘Abd al-Wahid ibn Zayd | Hazrat Abu al-Fayd Fudayl Ibn Iyad | Hazrat Ibrahim ibn Adham Balkhi | Hazrat Khwajah Sadiduddin Hudhayfa Mar’ashi | Hazrat Khwajah Aminuddin Abu Hubayrah Basri | Hazrat Khwajah Mamshad ‘Ulw Dinawri | Hazrat Khwajah Abu-Ishaq Shami Chishti | Hazrat Khwajah Abu Ahmad Abdal Chishti | Hazrat Khwajah Abu Muhammad ibn Abu Ahmad | Hazrat Khwajah Abu-Yusuf Chishti | Hazrat Muhammad Mawdud Chishti | Hazrat Hajji Sharif Zindani | Hazrat Khwajah ‘Uthman Harvani | Hazrat Khwaja Mu’inuddin Chishti | Hazrat Qutbuddin Bakhtiyar Kaki | Hazrat Fariduddin Mas’ud Ganj-i Shakar | Hazrat Khwajah Nizamuddin Awliya’ | Hazrat Nasiruddin Chiragh-i Delhi | Hazrat Kamaluddin ‘Allama | Hazrat Sirajuddin | Hazrat ‘Ilmuddin | Hazrat Mahmud | Hazrat Jamaluddin | Hazrat Hasan | Hazrat Muhammad | Hazrat Muhammad Yahya Madani | Hazrat Mawlana Kalimullah Jahanabadi | Hazrat Mawlana Nizamuddin | Hazrat Mawlana Fakhruddin | Hazrat Mawlana Shah Niyaz Ahmad | Hazrat Mawlana Shaykh Miskin | Hazrat Mawlana Nijabet ‘Ali Shah | Hazrat Abu-Hamid Karim Bakhsh | Hazrat ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib | Hazrat Imam al-Hasan | Hazrat Shaykh Abu Muhammad Jabir | Hazrat Shaykh Sa’id Qirwani | Hazrat Shaykh Fatih Mas’udi | Hazrat Shaykh Abu Muhammad Saa’d | Hazrat Shaykh Abu Muhammad Sa’id | Hazrat Shaykh Abu al-Qasim Mirwani | Hazrat Shaykh Abu Is’haq Ibrahim Basri | Hazrat Shaykh Zaynuddin Mahmud Qazwini | Hazrat Shaykh Shamsuddin | Hazrat Shaykh Tajuddin | Hazrat Shaykh Abu al-Hasan Ali | Hazrat Shaykh Fakhruddin | Hazrat Shaykh Taqiuddin Sufi | Hazrat Shaykh Abd ar-Rahman Madani | Hazrat Shaykh ‘Abd as-Salam ibn Mashish | Hazrat Shaykh Nuruddin Abu al-Hasan Shadhili uwaysi connection | Hazrat ‘Ali ibn Abu Talib | Hazrat Imam Husayn | Hazrat Imam ‘Ali Zayn al-‘Abidin | Hazrat Imam Muhammad Baqir | Hazrat Imam Ja’far as-Sadiq | Hazrat Imam Musa al-Kazim | Hazrat Imam Ali Rida ibn Musa al-Kazim | Hazrat Ma’ruf Karkhi | Hazrat Sari Saqati | Hazrat Junayd Baghdadi | Hazrat Shaykh Abu Bakr Shibli | Hazrat Shaykh ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Tamimi | Hazrat Abu al-Fadl ‘Abd al-Wahid Tamimi | Hazrat Abu al-Farah Tartusi | Hazrat Abu al-Hasan Farshi | Hazrat Abu Sa’id al-Mubarak Mukharrami | Hazrat Shaykh ‘Abd al-Qadir Jilani uwaysi connection | |
| Hazrat Khwajah ‘Ala’uddin al-Attar | Hazrat Mawlana Ya’qub al-Charkhi | Hazrat Khwajah ‘Ubaydullah Ahrar | Hazrat Mawlana Muhammad az-Zahid Wakhshi | Hazrat Mawlana Darwish Muhammad | Hazrat Mawlana Muhammad Khwajah Amkanagi | Hazrat Khwajah Muhammad Baqibillah | Hazrat Imam Rabbani Shaykh Ahmad Faruqi SirhindiMujaddidiHazrat Adam Banuri | Hazrat Sayyid Abdullah Akbarabadi | Hazrat Shah ‘Abd ar-Rahim | Hazrat Shah Waliullah | Hazrat Shah ‘Abd al-Aziz | Hazrat Sayyid Ahmad Shahid | Hazrat Sufi Nur Muhammad | Hazrat Sufi Fateh ‘Ali Uwaysi | Hazrat Mawlana Ghulam Salmani | uwaysi connection | |||
| Hazrat Sayyid Abdul Bari Shah | Hazrat Hafiz Hamid Hasan ‘Alawi | Hazrat Muhammad Sa’id Khan | Hazrat Azad Rasool | Hazrat Hamid Hasan | ||||
Note:
Uways al-Qarani was a contemporary of the Prophet Muhammad. Although the two never physically met, Uways received teachings and transmissions from the Prophet, and there are various sayings of the Prophet that attest to this. (eg., Sahih Muslim, c.55). In Sufism, the term Uwaysi is used to describe a spiritual connection through which a student receives instructions from a deceased Shaykh (or, in some cases, the Prophet Muhammad).
