Spiritual chain (Shajrah)

 The servant of Allah, Mukhtaruddin, was granted permission to extend bai‘at, i.e. to take pledge from disciples, by Qutbul-Aqtab Shaikhul-Ḥadith Hazrat Mawlana Muḥammad Zakariyya in Madrassah Ulum-i-Shariat, Madinah Munavvarah which was then located across the road exactly opposite to Babunnisa of the Prophet’s Mosqueﷺ  in the presence of a group that included Hazrat Maulana Muḥammad Yaḥya Madani , Hazrat Sifi Muḥammad Iqbal Saḥib, and Maulana Habibullah Saḥib on Thursday Zil Hajjah 19, 1397 A.H., i.e. December 01, 1977.

Shaikhul-Hadith Sahib has written:

 I , was permitted by

1. Hazrat Alhaj Maulana Khalil Ahmad Muhajir Madani from
2. Al-Muhaddis Al-Kabir Hazrat Maulana Alhaj Rashid Aḥmad Gangohi from
3. Hazrat Alhaj Imdadullah Muhajir Makki from
4. Hazrat 24 Mianji Nur Muhammad Jhanjhanvi from
5. Hazrat Alhaj Abdurrahim Vilayati Shahid from
6. Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Bari from
7. Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Ḥadi from
8. Hazrat Shaikh Azdudin from
9. Hazrat Shaikh Muhammad Makki Vali from
10. Hazrat Shaikh Muhammadi from
11. Hazrat Shaikh Muhibullah from
12. Hazrat Shaikh Abi Sa‘id Gangohi from
13. Hazrat Shaikh Nizzamuddin Balkhi from
14. Hazrat Shaikh Jalaluddin Thanesari from
15. Hazrat Qutbul-Alam Shah Abdul Qudus Gangohi from
16. Hazrat Shaikh Muhammad Faruqi from
17. Hazrat Makhdum Shaikh Arif Faruqi from
18. Hazrat Shaikh ‘Abdul Haq Rudaulvi from
19. Hazrat Shaikh Jalaluddīn Pani Pati from
20. Hazrat Shaikh Shamsuddīn Turki from
21. Hazrat Makhdum Alauddin Sabri from
22. Hazrat Shaikh Fariduddin Mas‘ud Shakar Ganj from
23. Hazrat Shaikh Quttbuddin Bakhtyar Kaki from
24. Hazrat Shaikh Khvajah Mu‘inuddin Sanjari from
25. Hazrat Shaikh Khvajah Usman 25 Haruni from
26. Hazrat Shaikh Khvajah Quttbuddin Maudud from
27. Hazrat Shaikh Nasiruddin Abi Yusuf from
28. Hazrat Shaikh Abi Muḥammad Cishti from
29. Ḥaẓrat Shaikh Abi Aḥmad Cishti from
30. Hazrat Shaikh Abi Ishaq Shami from
31. Hazrat Shaikh Mamshad Dinuri
32. Hazrat Shaikh Hubairah Basri from
33. Hazrat Shaikh Huzaifa Basri from
34. Hazrat Shaikh Ibrahim bin Adham Balkhi from
35. Hazrat Shaikh Fuzail bin Iyaz Makki from
36. Hazrat Shaikh Abdul Wahid bin Zaid Basri from
37. Hazrat Shaikh Faqihul-Ummat Hasan Basri from
38. Hazrat Marjail-Mashayikh Babuddar-il-Hikmah Ali bin Abi Talib from
39. Sayyidul-Kaunain Fakhrul Alamin Khatmul-Ambiya-Val-Mursalin Va Sayyidina Muhammad ﷺ.

Biographical sketches of all the auliya mentioned in this noble lineage are given in Persian at the end of the treatise Talimud-Din by Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (and their detailed biographies are available in 26 the book titled Tarikh-i-Mashayikh-i-Cisht by Ḥaẓrat Shaikhul-Hadith).