ʿAbd al-Quddūs Gangūhī, ʿAbd al-Quddūs b. Ismāʿīl b. Ṣafī al-Dīn b. Naṣīr al-Dīn Ḥanafī Rūdawlī Gangūhī (860–944/1456–1537), was an eminent master of the Chishtiyya–Ṣābiriyya Sufi order (ṭarīqa) in India. He was considered a descendant of Abū Ḥanīfa, and was also a follower of the Ḥanafī school, whence his Ḥanafī title (Ghawthī Shaṭṭārī, 216; Ba-dakhshī, 1078). ʿAbd al-Quddūs hailed from a family of religious scholars (Quddūsī, 6, 9) who appear to have migrated from Ghaznīn to Jawnpūr. His…