Khalid al jaleel biography of abraham

Shaykh Khalid al-Baghdadi

Shaykh Khalid al-Baghdadi al-Uthmani as-Sulaymani (may God sanctify his innermost being) is the thirty first Shaykh in the Naqshbandi Golden Chain. He was the ‘Mujaddid’ or Reformer of the 13^th Islamic century. His title, Uthmani, is due to him being a descendant of the third rightly guided Caliph, Uthman. The other part of his name came from the time he spent in Baghdad and the respect and esteem in which he was held there.

He was born in 1779 AD in the village of Karadag, near the city of Sulaymaniyyah, in Iraq. His grandfather was Pir Mikail Chis Anchit, which means ‘Michael of the six fingers’. His mother was from a celebrated Sufi family in Kurdistan.

Shaykh Khalid was raised and trained in that city, which was considered the primary educational city of its time. He studied Quran and Islam according to the Sunni school. He travelled to study with two great scholars of his time, Shaykh Abdul Karim al-Barzinji and Shaykh Abdur Rahman al-Barzinji. He also read with Mullah Muhammad Salih. When he returned to Sulaymaniyyah, he studied mathematics, philosophy and logic. He then travelled to Baghdad, where he studied the ‘Mukhtasar al-muntaha fil-usul’, an encyclopeadia of the principles of Islamic jurisprudence. He also studied the works of Ibn Ha

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