Shareef Zandani (1098–10 November 1215), also known as Nooruddin, was a

Sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

saint in India. He was a successor to

Maudood Chishti Maudood Chishti ( ur, ) (also known as Qutubuddin, Shams Sufiyaan and Chiraag Chishtiyaan) was an early day Sufi Saint, a successor to his father and master Abu Yusuf Bin Saamaan, twelfth link in the Sufi silsilah of Chishti Order, and the Mas ...

, 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 ''khil ...

of the

Chishti Order The Chishtī Order ( fa, ''chishtī'') is a tariqa, an order or school within the mystic Sufi tradition of Sunni Islam. The Chishti Order is known for its emphasis on love, tolerance, and openness. It began with Abu Ishaq Shami in Chisht, a ...

, 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. Hi ...

. 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 class ...

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 # Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī (d. 728, an early Persian Muslim theologian) # 'Abdul Wāḥid Bin Zaid Abul Faḍl (d. 793, an early Sufi saint) # Fuḍayll ibn 'Iyāḍ Bin Mas'ūd Bin Bishr al-Tamīmī # Ibrāhīm bin Adham (a legendary early Sufi ascetic) #Ḥudhayfah al-Mar'ashī #Amīnuddīn Abū Ḥubayrah al-Baṣrī #Mumshād Dīnwarī Al Alawi #

Abu Ishaq Shami Abu Ishaq Shami () (died 940) was a Muslim scholar who is often regarded as the founder of the Sufi Chishti Order. He was the first in the Chishti lineage (''silsila'') to live in Chisht and so to adopt the name "Chishti", so that, if the Chisht ...

chishti (d. 940, founder of the Chishti order proper) #Abu Abdaal Chishtī #Naseruddin Abu Muhammad Chishtī # Abu Yusuf Nasar-ud-Din Chishtī (d. 1067) # Qutab-ud-Din Maudood Chishtī (Abu Yusuf's son, d. 1139) #Haji Sharif Zindani (d. 1215CE, 612H)

References

Sources

Haji Shareef
Chishtysabiree.com. {{DEFAULTSORT:Zandani, Shareef 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