The Qadiri Silsilah of Shaykh Abdurahman Az-Zaylai' (d. 1299 AH/ 1880 AD) shares a similar chain from Al-Imam Abu Bakr Aydarus Al-Adani upwards. Imam Muhyidin Abdulqadir Al-Jaylani Imam Abdullah Ibn Ali Al-Asadi Al-Yamani Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Qurbah Shaykh Abdullah Ibn Yusuf Al-Asadi Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Al-Asadi Shayku Fakhrudin Abu Bakr Ibn Muhammad Ibn Nu'aym Shaykh Muhyidin Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Al-Asadi Shaykh Sirajudin Abu Bakr Ibn Muhammad Ibn Ibrahim As-Sufi Shaykh Abu Ma'ruf Ismail Ibn Ibrahim Ibn Abdisamad Al-Jabarti (who spread the books and teachings of Shaykh Muhyidin Ibn Arabi in Yemen) Imam Shihabudin Abu Bakr Ar-Raddad Al-Bakri Qadhi Jamaludin Ibn Muhammad Ibn Kibn at-Tabari Shaykh Jamaludin Muhammad Masud Abu Shukayl Al-Ansari Imam Jamaludin Muhammad Ahmad Bafadhl Al-Hadrami Imam 'Adani Imam Jund Ar-Rahman Shaykh Haji Mahamud Shaykh Ayfarah Shaykh Hamza Ibn Haji Mahamud Shaykh Ismail Ibn Umar Al-Maqdashi Shaykh Abdurahman Az-Zaylai'
al-Shaykh Aḥmad Riḍā Khān b. al-Shaykh Naqī ʿAlī Khān al-Baraylawī ↓ al-Shaykh al-Sayyid Ḥusayn b. Ṣāliḥ Jamal al-Layl al-Makkī ↓ al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. ʿAbd-Allāh Abū al-Ghayth al-Ahdal ↓ al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Sulaymān ↓ al-Sayyid Sulaymān + al-Shaykh Amr-Allāh al-Mizjājī ↓ al-Sayyid Aḥmad b. Muḥammad Maqbūl al-Ahdal ↓ al-Sayyid Yaḥyā b. ʿUmar ↓ al-Shaykh Ḥasan al-ʿUjaymī ↓ al-Shaykh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Qashāshī ↓ al-Shaykh Aḥmad al-Shinnāwī ↓ al-Shaykh ʿAlī b. ʿAbd al-Qudūs ↓ al-Shaykh Shihāb al-Dīn Aḥmad b. Ḥajar al-Haythamī ↓ al-Sayyid ʿAbd-Allāh b. Shaykh ↓ al-Qutb Abū Bakr b. ʿAbd-Allāh al-ʿAydārūs ↓ al-Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad b. Aḥmad Bāfaḍl ↓ al-Shaykh Jamāl al-Dīn b. Shakīl al-Ansārī ↓ al-Shaykh Muḥammad b. Saʿīd b. Kabn al-Ṭabarī ↓ al-Shaykh al-Widād al-Bakrī ↓ al-Shaykh Ismāʿīl al-Jabartī al-Hāshimī ↓ al-Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Abī al-Qāsim al-Ahdal ↓ al-Shaykh Abū al-Qāsim b. ʿUmar ↓ al-Shaykh Abū Bakr b. ʿAlī ↓ al-Shaykh Abū al-Ghayth b. Jamīl ↓ al-Shaykh al-Qutb Nūr al-Dīn Abū al-Ashbāl ʿAlī b. ʿUmar al-Ahdal al-Ḥusaynī ↓ al-Shaykh al-Ghawth al-Aʿẓam al-Sayyid ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī p.s., there may be errors in some of the names
—QĀDIRĪ SANAD— I authorise: the pious man; my master; my son; the delight of my eye; the fruit of my heart; the virtuous, learned, and practicing scholar; al-Shaykh Aḥmad Riḍā (who was only 23 years old at the time!) the son of: our revered shaykh; our blessing; the virtuous, learned, and practicing scholar; al-Shaykh Naqī ʿAlī Khān al-Baraylawī in the Qādirī path, just as my own shuyūkh authorised me therein, and I have permitted him to transmit it from me. —al-Shaykh Ḥusayn b. Ṣāliḥ Jamal al-Layl al-Makkī
