Shareef Zandani (1098–10 November 1215), also known as Nooruddin, was a
Sufi saint in India. He was a successor to
Maudood Chishti, 13th link in the Sufi
silsila
Silsila ( ar, سِلْسِلَة) is an Arabic word meaning ''chain'', ''link'', ''connection'' often used in various senses of lineage. In particular, it may be translated as "spiritual genealogy" where one Sufi Master transfers his ''khi ...
of the
Chishti Order, and the peer of
Usman Harooni
Usman Harooni ( ur, ) was an early modern wali or Sufi saint of Islam in India, a successor to Shareef Zandani, sixteenth link in the Silsila of the Chishti order, and master of Moinuddin Chishti. Usman Harooni was born in Haroon, Iran ...
.
He was born in a city called Zandanah in Iraq and died on 10 November 1215. He is buried in
Kannauj
Kannauj (Hindustani pronunciation: ənːɔːd͡ʒ is a city, administrative headquarters and a municipal board or Nagar Palika Parishad in Kannauj district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city's name is a corrupted form of the cla ...
,
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 1950 ...
, India.
Spiritual Lineage
The traditional silsila (spiritual lineage) of the Chishti order is as follows
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Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728, an early Persian Muslim theologian)
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'Abdul Wāḥid Bin Zaid Abul Faḍl (d. 793, an early Sufi saint)
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Fuḍayll ibn 'Iyāḍ Bin Mas'ūd Bin Bishr al-Tamīmī
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Ibrāhīm bin Adham (a legendary early Sufi ascetic)
#Ḥudhayfah al-Mar'ashī
#Amīnuddīn Abū Ḥubayrah al-Baṣrī
#Mumshād Dīnwarī Al Alawi
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Abu Ishaq Shami chishti (d. 940, founder of the Chishti order proper)
#Abu Abdaal Chishtī
#Naseruddin Abu Muhammad Chishtī
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Abu Yusuf Nasar-ud-Din Chishtī (d. 1067)
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Qutab-ud-Din Maudood Chishtī (Abu Yusuf's son, d. 1139)
#Haji Sharif Zindani (d. 1215CE, 612H)
References
Sources
Haji Shareef Chishtysabiree.com.
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Iranian Sufi saints
Chishti Order
Indian Sufi saints
1098 births
1215 deaths
12th-century Indian monks
12th-century Indian philosophers
13th-century Indian Muslims
Indian Sunni Muslim scholars of Islam