Shaykh Yaqub Abdurrahman Al-Shafi'i
Ibn al-Subki would be one who discussed the tabaqat of the Asha’irah. He listed them as follows between Abu al-Hasan al-Ash’ari and Ibn al-Subki (thus between approx. 330 and 770):
T1: Abu al-Hasan al-Ash’ari and those who took directly from him.
T2: Abu Sa’id al-Isma’ili, Abu Nasr al-Isma’ili, Abu Sahl al-Su’luki, Abu al-Hasan al-Darani, Qadi Abu Bakr al-Baqillani, Ustadh Abu Ishaq, Ibn Furak, Abu Ali al-Daqqaq, Abu Abd Allah al-Hakim al-Naysaburi, Abu Sa’d al-Kharkushi, Abu ‘Umar al-Bastami, Abu al-Qasim al-Balaji, Ibn Mashadha, al-Sharif Abu Talib, Abu Ma’mar b. Abi Sa’d al-Isma’ili, Abu Hazim al-Abdawi, Hafiz Abu Nu’aym al-Asbahani, Hafiz al-A’raj, Abu Ali b. Shadhan, Abu al-Hasan al-Balyani, Abu al-Fadl al-Mumsi, Abu Bakr al-Abhari, Abu Muhammad b. Abi Zayd, Abu Muhammad b. al-Tabban, and others.
T3: Abu al-Hasan al-Sukri, Abu Mansur al-Ayyubi, Qadi Abd al-Wahhab al-Maliki, Abu al-Hasan al-Nu’aymi, Abu Zahir b. Khurashah, Ustadh Abu Mansur al-Baghdadi, Hafiz Abu Dharr al-Harawi, Abu Bakr b. al-Jarmi, Abu Muhammad al-Juwayni, Abu al-Qasim b. Abi Uthman al-Hamadhani Abu Ja’far al-Simnani al-Hanafi, Abu Hatim al-Qazwini, Rash’a b. Nazif al-Muqri, Abu Muhammad al-Asbahani, Ibn al-Labban, Sulaym al-Razi, Abu Abd Allah al-Khabbazi, Abu al-Fadl b. Amrus al-Maliki, Ustadh Abu al-Qasim Abd al-Jabbar b. Ali al-Isfarayini, Hafiz Abu Bakr al-Bayhaqi, Abu Imran al-Fasi, and others.
T4: Hafiz al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Ustadh Abu al-Qasim al-Qushayri, Abu Ali al-Hamdani, Abu al-Muzaffar al-Isfarayani, Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi, Imam al-Haramayn al-Juwayni, Nasr al-Maqdisi, Abu Abd Allah al-Tabari, Abu Ishaq al-Tunusi, Abu al-Wafa Ibn Aqil, and others.
T5: Abu al-Muzaffar al-Khawwafi, Ilkya al-Harrasi, Imam Ghazzali, Fakhr al-Islam al-Shashi, Abu Nasr al-Qushayri, Abu Sa’id al-Mihani, al-Sharif Abu Abd Allah al-Dibaji, Qadi Abu al-Abbas b. al-Rutabi, Abu Abd Allah al-Furawi, Abu Sa’id b. Abi Salih al-Mu’adhdhin, Abu al-Hasan al-Sulami, Abu Mansur b. Mashadah al-Asbahani, Abu al-Futuh al-Isfarayini, Nasr Allah al-Missisi, Abu al-Walid al-Baji, Ibn Abd al-Barr, Abu al-Hasan al-Qabisi, Abu al-Qasim Ibn Asakir, Abu al-Hasan al-Muradi, Abu Sa’d Ibn al-Sam’ani, Abu Tahir al-Silafi, Qadi Iyad, Abu al-Fath al-Shahrastani, and others.
T6: Fakhr al-Din al-Razi, Sayf al-Din al-Amidi, Izz al-Din b. Abd al-Salam, Abu Amr b. al-Hajib, Jamal al-Din al-Hasiri al-Hanafi, and others.
T7: Ibn Daqiq al-Eid, Ala al-Din al-Baji, Taqi al-Din al-Subki, Safi al-Din al-Hindi, Sadr al-Din b. al-Murahhil, Sulayman b. Abd al-Hakam al-Maliki, Shams al-Din al-Hariri, Jamal al-Din al-Zamlakani, Shihab al-Din Ibn Jamil, Shams al-Din al-Sarruji, Qadi Shams al-Din b. al-Hariri, Qadi Adud al-Din al-Iji al-Shirazi.
One of the shortest chains of transmission up to Imam Abul-Hasan Al-Ash'ari
from Shaykh al-Islam Zakariyya al-Ansari the connection to al-Ash’ari as:
Shaykh al-Islam
Al-Taqi Muhammad b. Muhammad b. Fahd
Al-Majd al-Lughawi
Siraj al-Din al-Qazwini
Qadi al-Taftazani
Abu Bakr al-Harawi
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
His father Umar
Abu al-Qasim al-Isfarayini
Abu Ishaq al-Isfarayini
Abu al-Hasan al-Bahili
Abu al-Hasan al-Ash’ari