The Zahabiya order is a Sufi sect[2] of the Shiites of the ninth century AH,[3] composed of followers of Seyyed Abdullah Borzeshabadi Mashhadi.[4][5] In Iran, after the formation of the Safavid state, this sect spread and then many sects branched out from it. For this reason, it is also called "Umm al-Salasel" (mother of the branches).[6] The root of the Zahabiya order is from the Sufis of "Kubrawiya of Hamadani".[5] In a word, Zahabiya is a Silsila (chain, lineage of sheikhs) of the Tariqa (school, order) of Kubrawiya. Some have considered Zahabiya to be Sunni before Borzeshabadi, after him they have considered it as a Shiite tendency.[7]