The Sufi Way

Page Under Construction, whilst we update biographies of many of these great teachers, some of whose litanies and wisdom we regularly use in our gatherings of invocation. Meanwhile, Sidi Boumadyan’s spiritual chain from the Shadhili Tariqa is as follows:

Ash-Shaykh Sidi Abu Madyan took from ash-Shaykh Sidi Mahammad Lahlu al-Fasi ad-Darqawi who took from ash-Shaykh Muhammad bin Ali ad-Darqawi al-Murakashi and he was a student of ash-Shaykh Muhammad al-‘Arabi ibn al-Hashimi [ a descendant of the Prophet Allah’s prayer and peace be upon him, the Qadi of Madghurah] who was a student of ash-Shaykh Ahmad al-Badawi al-Fasi who was the student of the great Shaykh Moulay al-Arabi ad-Darqawi, Allah be well pleased with all of them.

Moulay Al-Arabi Ad-Darqawi took it from ‘Ali al-Jamal, from al-‘Arabi ibn ‘Abdullah, from Ahmad ibn ‘Abdullah, from Qasim al-Khassasi, from Muhammad ibn ‘Abdullah, from ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi, from Yusuf al-Fasi, from ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Majdhub, from ‘Ali al-Sanhaji al-Dawwar, from Ibrahim al-Fahham, from Ahmad Zarruq, from Ahmad al-Hadrami, from Yahya al-Qadiri, from ‘Ali ibn Wafa, from Muhammad Wafa Bahr al-Safa, from Dawud al-Bakhili, from Ahmad ibn ‘Ata’ Illah al-Iskandari, from Abul ‘Abbas al-Mursi, from Abul Hasan al-Shadhili, from ‘Abd al-Salam ibn Mashish, from ‘Abd al-Rahman al-‘Attar al-Zayyat, from al-Ghawth Abu Madyan, from ‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jaylani.