The maternal side of Hazrat Sayyid Ahmad ar- Rifâi ‘s family goes back to Hazrat Huseyin, the son of Hazrat Ali (ra). On the paternal side his lineage goes back to the Prophet Muhammad (saw) as follows: Hazrat Ali (ra), the master of the community, husband of Hazrat Fatima and the founder of Imams, a relative of the prophet; Hazrat Huseyin, Imam of Muslims, the chief of the Mumins (believers in Islam) who were tried and afflicted with various troubles and calamities, the martyr of Kerbela;
- Imam Ali Zayna’l-Abidin (K.S.)
- Imam Muhammad al-Baqir (K.S.)
- Imam Jafer as-Sadiq (K.S.)
- Imam Musa al-Kazim (K.S.)
- Imam Ibrahim al-Murteza (K.S.)
- Sayyid Musa Sani (K.S.)
- Sayyid Ahmad Salih Akbar (K.S.)
- Sayyid Abu Abdullah Husayn (K.S.)
- Sayyid Hasan Qasım Abû Mûsa (K.S.)
- Sayyid Muhammad Abu’l-Qasim (K.S.)
- Sayyid Al-Mahdi Makki (K.S.)
- Sayyid Abu’l Mekarim al-Hasan (K.S.)
- Sayyid Abu’l Fadail (K.S.)
- Sayyid Abu Ali Murtaza (K.S.)
- Sayyid Ali Hazim Abu ’l Fewaris (K.S.)
- Sayyid Sabit (K.S.)
- Sayyid Yahya Nakib (K.S.)
- Sayyid Ebul-Hasen Aliyy-ar-Rifâi (K.S.)
- to Sayyid Hazrat Ahmad ar-Rifâi (K.S.)