Khabib’s great-grandfather, Nur Muhammad, was a Khalifa of Imam Shamil Dagestani of the Naqshbandi tariqa. Imam Shamil was a spiritual, political, and military leader in the Dagestani resistance to Russian imperialism in the 1800s as well as head of state of the Caucasian Imamate https://www.instagram.com/p/CGxtfdrh5LM/?igshid=1jj97wll5vg84











