This paper will explore a series of narrative traditions depicting the figure of the Iranian poet, philosopher, and Ismaili missionary Nasir-i Khusraw (d. after 1071) as a disciple of the renowned Sufi master Abu’l-Hasan Kharaqani (d. 1033). This narrative first appears in the late-fifteenth century work of Dawlatshah Samarqandi and is reflected in a series of literary anthologies and hagiographical works thereafter, down to the nineteenth century. While the relationship depicted in these narratives is almost certainly apocryphal, I find that these accounts nonetheless hold great significance for understanding the relationship between the Sufi and Ismaili communities in early-modern Iran and Central Asia among which these narratives circulated. In this paper I will investigate both the rationale behind the “selection” of Abu’l-Hasan Kharaqani as the protagonist in these narratives, examining the place of this figure within the historical memory of the Eastern Sufi orders, as well as the dialogic content of the narratives, which depict Kharaqani guiding Nasir-i Khusraw to abandon his intellectual pursuit of philosophy and to instead embrace the Sufi path of love. This dialogue is rooted in a long-standing anti-Ismaili polemic reflected most prominently in the works of al-Ghazali, but is also part of a broader narrative effort by which various Sunni constituencies in the early-modern period sought to appropriate the legacy and charismatic authority of Nasir-i Khusraw as a popular figure in the Persianate world. Most importantly, I argue that this tradition in turn served as the model for a later narrative sequence developed among Nizari Ismaili communities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, depicting Nasir-i Khusraw as the disciple of the renowned Nizari missionary Hasan-i Sabbah, reflecting the degree to which Ismaili narrative traditions emerged in engagement with Sufi communities and others in this period.