Imam Abu Hanifah Nu’man ibn Tsabit’s (r.a.) Sufi Silsilah
بِسۡمِ ٱللهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ Imam Muhammad Amin ibn ‘Abidin ( r.a. ) said that Shaykh Abu ‘Ali Hasan ibn ‘Ali ad-Daqqaq ( q.s. ), the shaykh of Imam Abu al-Qasim ‘Abd al-Karim ibn Huzan al-Qushayri ( r.a. ), received his path from Shaykh Abu al-Qasim an-Naswir Abadi ( q.s. ), who received it from Imam Abu Bakr Dulaf ibn Jahdar ash-Shibli ( q.s. ), who received it from Shaykh Abu al-Hasan as-Sirri ibn al-Mughallis as-Saqathi ( q.s. ), who received it from Khwaja Abu Mahfuzh Ma’ruf ibn Firuz al-Karkhi ( q.s. ), who received it from Shaykh Abu Sulayman Dawud ibn Nuswayr ath-Tha’i ( q.s. ), who received the knowledge, both the external and the internal, from Imam Abu Hanifah Nu’man ibn Tsabit ( r.a. ) himself.