Question:
bismillaharahmanraheem
aslamalaykum shaykh hisham
can you tel me how many people [ or generations ] are between mawlana [ as a ahle bayt ]
and holy prophet sallallah alay wasallam and your lineage sayyidee.
i heard shaykh habib ali jifri has the shortest lineage as a syed which is 14
or 15, thats amazing
sorry for any bad adab
thanks sayyidee
Answer:
wa `alaykum salam,
That is private information, which we have not been given. However what we do know is that Mawlana Shaykh Nazim Adil al-Haqqani is 40th in the spiritual lineage directly to Rasulillah (s).
Regarding the other information, it does not seem reasonable, though not impossible, for anyone to have only 14 generations back to Sayyidina Rasulillah (s), as that would mean each ancestor had a child at 100 years of age, and Allah knows best.
Taher Siddiqui
