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Mohammed Uthman al-Mirghani al-Khatim

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Mohammed Uthman al-Mirghani, known as Al-Khatim (Arabic: محمد عثمان الميرغني الختم) was the founder of the Khatmiyya sufi tariqa, a sect of Islam, that has a following in Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia.

Family

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He was born into the Mirghani family in Mecca which was one of the most noble families that have descended from the Islamic prophet Muhammad. He is the son of Muhammad Abu Bakr who is the son of Abdallah al-Mahjoub who is the son of Ibrahim who is a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. The lineage of Muhammad Othman al-Mirghani was verified by Murtada al-Zubeidi and this was further verified by al-Jabarti in his book Taareekh al-Jabarti / al-Jabarti's History part two.[1][2][3]

  1. Muhammad
  2. Ali ibn Abi Talib and Fatima Al Zahra
  3. Imam Hussain
  4. Imam Ali Zayn al-Abidin
  5. Imam Muhammad al Baqir 
  6. Imam Ja'far al-Sâdiq
  7. Imam Musa al-Kazim
  8. Imam Ali al Reza
  9. Imam Muhammad al Taqi
  10. Imam Ali al Hadi
  11. Imam Hasan al-Askari al-Khalis
  12. Sayyid Ali al-Muttaqi 
  13. Sayyid Mir Uthman
  14. Sayyid Mir Ali
  15. Sayyid Mir Umar
  16. Sayyid Mir Khurd Bukhari
  17. Sayyid Ismail
  18. Sayyid Muhammad
  19. Sayyid Ali
  20. Sayyid Abu Bakr Hasan
  21. Sayyid Isa Hasan
  22. Sayyid Yahya
  23. Sayyid Ibrahim
  24. Sayyid Ali
  25. Sayyid Ahmad
  26. Sayyid Hasan
  27. Sayyid Ali
  28. Sayyid Abd Allah
  29. Sayyid Hasan
  30. Sayyid Haydar
  31. Sayyid Mir Khurd
  32. Sayyid Hasan
  33. Sayyid Ali Mirghani
  34. Sayyid Muhammad Amin
  35. Sayyid Hasan
  36. Sayyid Ibrahim
  37. Sayyid Abd Allah al-Mahjoubi
  38. Sayyid Muhammad Abu Bakr
  39. Sayyid Muhammad Othman al-Mirghani[4][5]

Muhammad Uthman al-Mirghani was born in Ta'if and died in Mecca and was buried there in al-Ma'alla.

His sons followed in his footsteps after his death, the most famous of whom were Muhammad al-Hassan al-Mirghani, Gaafar as-Sadig al-Mirghani, Abdullahi al-Mahjoub al-Mirghani, Hashim al-Mirghani and Sirr al-Khatim al-Mirghani.

Travels

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Al-Khatim's religious journey began in Mecca from whence he travelled to Tarim in Yemen and then to Somalia by sea and to Massawa on the Red Sea coast where he travelled inland into the Ethiopian hinterland before returning to Mecca. On this trip tens of thousands of people embraced Islam including entire clans and tribes.[citation needed]

On his second trip, which started in the Egyptian countryside south of Cairo, he was accompanied by his teacher Ahmad ibn Idris who parted ways with him in Al-Zeyniyyah. Al-Khatim traversed the Nubian lands of the Mahas and the Sakot and went to Kordofan and reached the lands of the Fur people and the Borno tribe. He then travelled to Sennar on the banks of the Blue Nile and to Shendi via Gezira and via the Butana to the Taka Mountain region near Kassala from which he entered into Ethiopia and visited many regions before returning to Mecca.

Literature

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  • Ali Salih Karrar, R.S. O'Fahey, The Sufi Brotherhoods in the Sudan, Northwestern University Press, 1992 ISBN 978-0-8101-1045-8

References

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  1. ^ Hofheinz, Albrecht, Sons of a hidden Imām: The Genealogy of the Mirghani family, 1992, page 13-14
  2. ^ pages 548-549, عجائب الاثار في التراجم والأخبار، الجزء الثاني، عبد الرحمن حسن الجبرتي، مطبعة دير الكتب,1998
  3. ^ https://shajara.org/2020/06/29/1426/ Shajara-e-nasab lineages of descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari r.a.
  4. ^ page 549, عجائب الاثار في التراجم والأخبار، الجزء الثاني، عبد الرحمن حسن الجبرتي، مطبعة دير الكتب,1998
  5. ^ https://shajara.org/2020/06/29/1426/ Shajara-e-nasab lineages of descendants of Imam Hasan al-Askari r.a.
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