Abd al-Aziz al-Hasani

Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad Suhayl al-Khatib al-Hasani (Arabic: عبد العزيز بن محمد سهيل الخطيب الحسني, romanized: ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad Suhayl al-Khaṭīb al-Ḥasanī; born 1956), also known as Qutb al-Suriya (Arabic: قطب السوريا, romanized: Quṭb al-Sūriyā) or Qutb-i Sham (Urdu: قطب شام, romanized: Quṭb-i Shām), is a Syrian Islamic scholar of Sufism. He is considered a twenty-fifth generation descendent of Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani.

Abd al-Aziz al-Hasani
عبد العزيز الحسني
Personal
Born	c. 1956 Qaymariyya, Damascus, Syria
Religion	Islam
Nationality	Syrian
Era	Modern era
Region	South Asia
Denomination	Sunni
Jurisprudence	Shafi'i
Tariqa	Qadiri
Muslim leader
Disciple of	Ilyas Qadri

Biography

Abd al-Aziz al-Hasani was born in the neighborhood of Qaymariyya in Damascus, Syria in 1956. He grew up under the tutelage of his father, the hadith scholar Muhammad Suhayl. Al-Hasani attended his meetings and lessons in the Umayyad Mosque and continued his lessons and took sciences along with his university studies in the Faculty of Arts.

Abd al-Aziz's genealogy is as follows: Abd al-Aziz ibn Muhammad Suhayl ibn Abd al-Fattah ibn Muhammad ibn Abd Allah ibn Abd al-Rahim ibn Muhammad al-Khatib and the list goes on to Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani, himself a descendent of Hasan ibn Ali. Thus, Abd al-Aziz al-Hasani acquired the nisba al-Hasani.

Abd al-Aziz has toured several countries, including Pakistan, where he met with Ilyas Qadri in Karachi and praised him as "leader of the ahl al-sunnah". He declared "salvation of the ummah is with Sufism".