Imam Fassi

Al-Fasi was born either in the year 1173 Hijri (ca 1760 CE)^[1] or 1218 Hijri^[2] in Fes in Morocco, from which the family name "al-Fassi" had earlier been derived.^[1] His mother died during his very childhood. He was a hafiz of the Quran during his childhood and travelled to various parts of the world and finally Makkah in search of wisdom.^{[citation needed]}

His full name is Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Muhammad ibn Mas'ūd ibn Abd al-Rahmān al-Makkī al-Hasanī al-Idrisī al-Fāsī al-Shadhilī,^[2] or sometimes written and referenced as Hazrat Qutbul Ujud Seyyidina Mohammad al-Fassy ash-Shadhili.^[3] Within the tariqa, Muhammad al-Fasi, or Imam Fassi is widely referred to as Qutbul Ujud (Arabic: قطب الوجود, Quṭb al-Wujūd) or Qutbul Ujud Hazrat Fassi (Arabic: قطب الوجود حضرة فاسي, Quṭb al-Wujūd Haḍraẗ Fāsī) due to his lofty status in the diwān of saints.^[4] He is also sometimes referred to as Sidi Muhammad al-Fasi. His other titles include Qutbur Rabbani and Haikalus Samadhani.

Muhammad al-Fasi travelled to Mecca to memorise and learn the Quran with tajwid. He travelled to many places in search of good preachers. His main sheikh was Sidi al-Sheikh Muhammad ibn Hamza Zafir al-Madani^[1] (also written as Sheikh Qutb Mohammad bin Hamza lafir al-Madani^[5]).

Muhammad al-Fasi and his descendants form a branch of the Shadhili^[3] known as the Fāsiyya al-Shadhiliyya or Fassiyatush Shadhiliyya, often remarked as the Ṭarīq al-Shukr ("Order of Gratitude").

The silsila of the Fassiyatush Shadhiliyya order (remarked as the Silsilat al-Dhahab, "the Golden Chain") is as follows:^[6][7][8][9]

• Allah
• Jibra'il
• Muhammad
• Ali ibn Abi Talib
• Imam Hasan
• Abu Muhammad Jaabir
• Sa'īd Al-Ghazwānī
• Abu Muhammad Fath as-Su'ūd
• Abu Muhammad Sa'ad
• Abi Muhammad Sa'īd
• Abu 'l-Qāsim bin Marwān
• Ishaq Ibrahim al-Basarī
• Zainuddin al-Qazwīnī
• Sayyidi Shamsuddin
• Sayyidi Tājuddin
• Sayyidi Nūruddin
• Sayyidi Fakhruddin
• Taqi'uddin al-Fukhayr
• Abd al-Rahman al-Madani al-Attar al-Zayyat
• Abd as-Salam ibn Mashīsh al-'Alami
• Imam Nūruddin Abu 'l-Hasan 'Alī ash-Shādhilī
• Abu 'l-'Abbās al-Mursī
• Ahmad ibn Ata’ullah al-Iskandarī
• Dāwūd al-Bakhilī
• Muhammad Wafa^[10]
• 'Alī Wafa ^[11]
• Yahya al-Qadirī
• Ahmad ibn 'Uqba al-Haḍramī
• Sheikh Shihābuddin Abu 'l-'Abbas Ahmad Zarrūq al-Fāsī
• Ibrahim Ithām
• 'Alī Sanhānī^[12]
• Abd al-Rahman al-Majdhubi (Majzoubi)
• Abu 'l-Mahāsin Yūsuf al-Fāsi
• Sidi Muhammad
• Abd al-Rahman al-Fasi
• Qāsim al-Ikhlāṣī
• Ahmad ibn Abdullah al-Fāsī
• 'Arabī ibn Ahmad ibn 'Abdullah Ṣāhib al-Maqfiyya
• 'Alī al-Jamal al-'Imranī
• Muhammad al-'Arabi ibn Ahmad al-Darqawī
• Muhammad ibn Hamza Ẓāfir al-Madanī
• Sidi Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn Mas'ud ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Makkī al-Idrīsī al-Fāsī al-Shādhilī (Muhammad al-Fāsī, Imam Fassi)
• Shamsuddin Makkī ibn Muhammad al-Fāsī
• Ahmad al-Arabi
• Muhammad Ibraheem Fassi ibn Shamsuddin Makki al Fassi
• Abdullah al-Fāsī ibn Shamsuddin Makkī al-Fāsī
• Dr. Muhammad ibn Mohammad Ibrahim al Fassi
• Abdul Wahab al Fassi ibn Mohammed Ibrahim al Fassi ash Shadhili
• Abdul Qadir al Fassi ibn Muhammad Ibrahim al Fassi ash Shadhili
• Najmul Ulema Hazrat Ajwad ibn Abdallah al Fassi ash Shadhili
• Mahdhi Al Fassi ibn Abdallah al Fassi ash Shadhili (Present day Sheikh al-Sujjada of World Fassiyatush Shadhiliyya Sufi order)