Rumi's ancestry reaches back to Abu Bakr, the first caliph of Islam. Sultan Valad writes in his Ibtidaname about his grandfather Baha al-Din Valad: "His title became Baha al-Din Valad. His devotees are countless. His ancestry reaches back to Abu Bakr. Therefore, he attained the highest spiritual level just like Hadrat Siddiq Abu Bakr." Aflaki agrees with this position. He determined Baha al-Din Valad's chain of the ancestry as follows: Baha al-Din Valad - Huseyin Khatibi - Ahmed Khatibi - Mahmud - Mavdud - Husayyib - Mutahhar - Hammad - Abdurrahman -Abu Bakr.
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