Kyai Miftah tercatat pernah nyantri di beberapa pesantren ternama di antaranya Pondok Pesantren Tambak Beras Jombang.
Sayyid alawi al maliki. In his Al-Risala al-Safadiyya. Abdul-Qadir Gilani being a renowned jurist. The Chishtiyya was Hanafi. The Shadiliyya order was Maliki. And the Naqshbandiyya order was Hanafi. Thus it is precisely because it is historically proven that many of the most eminent defenders of Islamic orthodoxy such as Abdul-Qadir Gilani Ghazali and the Sultan Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn were connected.