# Süleymancılar

The Süleymancılar or Sülaymaniyya is a Hanafi Sunni Muslim Tariqa based in Turkey. It takes its name from Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan. In the early 1990s it was estimated that there were over two million members in Turkey. There are also several sub-orders of the Süleymancılar in Germany and United States.

## Süleymancılar Silsila

The Süleymancılar Silsila or chain of succession is as follows:
| # | Name | Buried | Birth | Death |
| 1 | Sayyiduna Muhammad | Madinah, Saudi Arabia | Mon 12 Rabi al-Awwal (570/571 CE) | 12 Rabi al-Awwal 11 AH (5/6 June 632 CE) |
| 2 | Sayyiduna Abu Bakr Siddiq | Madinah, Saudi Arabia | | 22 Jumada al-Thani 13 AH (22 August 634 C.E) |
| 3 | Sayyiduna Salman al-Farsi | Mada'in, Iraq | | 10 Rajab 33 AH (4/5 February 654 C.E) |
| 4 | Imām Qasim ibn Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr | Madinah, Saudi Arabia | 23 Shaban 24 AH (22/23 June 645 C.E) | 24 Jumada al-Thani 101/106/107 AH |
| 5 | Imām Jafar Sadiq | Madinah, Saudi Arabia | 8 Ramadan 80 AH (5/6 November 699 C.E) | 15 Rajab 148 AH (6/7 September 765 C.E) |
| 6 | Khwaja Bayazid Bastami | Bistam, Semnan province, Iran | 186 AH (804 C.E) | 15 Shaban 261 AH (24/25 May 875 C.E) |
| 7 | Khwaja Abul-Hassan Kharaqani | Kharaqan, near Bistam, Semnan province, Iran | 352 AH (963 C.E) | 10 Muharram 425 AH |
| 8 | Khwaja Abu al-Qasim Gurgani | Gorgan, Golestan, Iran | 380 AH (990 C.E) | 450 AH (1058 C.E) (5/6 December 1033 C.E) |
| 9 | Khwaja Abu Ali Farmadi | Toos, Khurasan, Iran | 434 AH (1042/1043 C.E) | 4 Rabi al-Awwal 477 or 511 AH (10 July 1084 / 6 July 1117) |
| 10 | Khwaja Abu Yaqub Yusuf Hamadānī | Marv, near Mary, Turkmenistan | 440 AH (1048/1049 C.E) | Rajab 535 AH (Feb/Mar 1141 C.E) |
| 11 | Khwaja Abdul Khaliq Ghujdawani | Ghajdawan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 22 Shaban 435 AH (24/25 March 1044 C.E) | 12 Rabi al-Awwal 575 AH (17/18 August 1179 C.E) |
| 12 | Khwaja Arif Riwgari | Reogar, near Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 27 Rajab 551 AH (15 September 1156 C.E) | 1 Shawwal 616 AH (10/11 December 1219 C.E.) |
| 13 | Khwaja Mahmood Anjir-Faghnawi | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 18 Shawwal 628 AH (18/19 August 1231 C.E) | 17 Rabi al-Awwal 717 AH (29/30 May 1317 C.E) |
| 14 | Khwaja Azizan Ali Ramitani | Khwaarizm, Uzbekistan | 591 AH (1194 C.E) | 27 Ramadan 715 or 721 AH (25/26 December 1315 or 20/21 October 1321) |
| 15 | Khwaja Mohammad Baba As-Samasi | Samaas, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 25 Rajab 591 AH (5/6 July 1195 C.E) | 10 Jumada al-Thani 755 AH (2/3 July 1354 C.E) |
| 16 | Khwaja Sayyid Amir Kulal | Saukhaar, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 676 AH (1277/1278 C.E) | Wed 2 Jumada al-Thani 772 AH (21/22 December 1370 C.E) |
| 17 | Khwaja Muhammad Baha'uddin Naqshband Bukhari | Qasr-e-Aarifan, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 4 Muharram 718 AH (8/9 March 1318 C.E) | 3 Rabi al-Awwal 791 AH (2/3 March 1389 C.E) |
| 18 | Khwaja Ala'uddin Attar Bukhari | Jafaaniyan, Transoxiana,Uzbekistan | | Wed 20 Rajab 804 AH (23 February 1402 C.E) |
| 19 | Khwaja Yaqub Charkhi | Gulistan, Dushanbe, Tajikistan | 762 AH (1360/1361 C.E) | 5 Safar 851 AH (21/22 April 1447 C.E) |
| 20 | Khwaja Ubaidullah Ahrar | Samarkand, Uzbekistan | Ramadan 806 AH (March/April 1404 C.E) | 29 Rabi al-Awwal 895 AH (19/20 February 1490 C.E) |
| 21 | Khwaja Muhammad Zahid Wakhshi | Wakhsh | 14 Shawwal 852 AH (11/12 December 1448 C.E) | 1 Rabi al-Awwal 936 AH (3/4 November 1529 C.E) |
| 22 | Khwaja Durwesh Muhammad | Asqarar, Uzbekistan | 16 Shawwal 846 AH (17/18 February 1443 C.E) | 19 Muharram 970 AH (18/19 September 1562 C.E) |
| 23 | Khwaja Muhammad Amkanaki | Amkana, Bukhara, Uzbekistan | 918 AH (1512/1513 C.E) | 22 Shaban 1008 AH (8/9 March 1600 C.E) |
| 24 | Khwaja Muhammad Baqi Billah Berang | Delhi, India | 5 Dhu al-Hijjah 971 or 972 AH (14 July 1564 / 3 July 1565) | 25 Jumada al-Thani 1012 AH (29/30 November 1603 C.E) |
| 25 | Shaikh Ahmad al-Fārūqī al-Sirhindī, Imām Rabbānī | Sirhind, India | 14 Shawwal 971 AH (25/26 May 1564 C.E) | 28 Safar 1034 AH (9/10 December 1624 C.E) |
| 26 | Imām Khwaja Muhammad Masum Fārūqī | Sirhind, India | 1007 AH (1598/1599 C.E) | 9 Rabi al-Awwal 1099 AH (13/14 January 1688 C.E) |
| 27 | Khwaja Muhammad Saif ud-Dīn Fārūqī | Sirhind, India | 1049 AH (1639/1640 C.E) | 19 or 26 Jumada al-awwal 1096 AH (April 1685 C.E) |
| 28 | Sayyid Nur Muhammad Badayuni | Delhi, India | | 11 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1135AH (12/13 August 1723 C.E) |
| 29 | Shaheed Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan, Shams-ud-Dīn Habībullāh | Delhi, India | 11 Ramadan 1111 AH (2/3 March 1700 C.E) | 10 Muharram 1195 AH (Fri 5 January 1781 C.E) |
| 30 | Khwaja Abdullah Dehlavi, alias Shah Ghulam Ali Dehlavi | Delhi, India | 1156 AH (1743 C.E) | 22 Safar 1240 AH (15/16 October 1824 C.E) |
| 31 | Hāfīz Abu Sā‘īd Fāruqī Mujaddidī | Delhi, India | 2 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1196 AH (9/10 October 1782 C.E) | 1 Shawwal 1250 AH (30/31 January 1835 C.E) |
| 32 | Khwaja Shah Ahmed Sā‘īd Fāruqī Mujaddidi ibn Hāfīz Abu Sā‘īd Fāruqī | Madinah, Saudi Arabia | | 2 Rabi al-Awwal 1277 AH (18/19 September 1860 C.E) |
| 33 | Khwaja Muhammed Mazhar İş’an Can-ı Cânân ibn Khwaja Ahmed Sā‘īd Fāruqī | India | 1248 AH (1832 C.E) | Madina (1883 C.E) |
| 34 | Khwaja Selahüddin İbn-i Mevlana Siracüddin | Osh - Kyrgyzstan | (1843 C.E) | Osh - Kyrgyzstan (13 November 1910, C.E) |
| 35 | Süleyman Hilmi Tunahan | Istanbul, Turkey | (1888 C.E) | (September 16, 1959 C.E) |