Abu al-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn al-Qasim Ibn Nafi'i Ibn Abi Bazzah (

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: أحمد بن محمد بن عبدالله بن القاسم بن نافع بن أبي بزَّة), better known simply as al-Bazzi (170–250AH) (786/7–864/5 CE),Imām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī
. © 2013 Prophetic Guidance. Published June 16, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2016. was an important figure in the transmission of

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, the seven canonical methods of

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.Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah
The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters
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Qunbul Abu ‘Amr Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd ar-Rahman, al-Makhzumi, better known as Qunbul (195-291 AH / 808-904 CE), was one of the primary transmitters of one of the Qira'at, or the canonical methods of reading the Qur'an.Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM SaifullahT ...

were the primary people responsible for spreading the recitation method of

Ibn Kathir al-Makki Abū Maʿbad (or Abū Bakr) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr al-Dārānī al-Makkī, better known as Ibn Kathir al-Makki (45-120AH), was one of the transmitters of the seven canonical Qira'at, or methods of reciting the Qur'an.Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Sai ...

,Shady Hekmat Nasser
Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings
p. 129. Taken from ''The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh''.

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, 2012.

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Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
pg. 244.

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, 1983. which became especially popular among the people of

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.Peter G. Riddell
Islamic scripture and textual materials
p. 18. Taken from ''Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses''. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. Al-Bazzi's forefather, Abu Bazza, was of

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descent and had reportedly converted to Islam through al-Sāʾib b. Abī al-Sāʾib Ṣayfī al-Makhzūmī (died after 638), one of the companions of the Islamic Prophet

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. Al-Bazzi was a client (''

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'') of the

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tribe. Al-Bazzi was considered the chief

Qāriʾ A Qari (, ar, قَارِئ, plural ''qāriʾūn'', ''qurrāʾ'' or ''qaraʾah'') is a person who recites the Quran with the proper rules of recitation (''tajwid''). Although it is encouraged, a qāriʾ does not necessarily have to memorize t ...

in his time and was also the

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. He died in 864CE.

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