Abu Shu'ayb Salih ibn Ziyad ibn Abdillah ibn Ibrahim ibn al-Jarood al-Rustubi al-Soussi al-Raqqi (, ), better known as Abu Shu'ayb al-Soussi or simply al-Soussi, was a significant figure in the transmission of the

qira'at In Islam, (pl. ; ) refers to the ways or fashions that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, is recited. More technically, the term designates the different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with rec ...

, having transmitted the qira'ah of Abu 'Amr through Yahya al-Yazidi.

Qira'at

Abu Shu;ayb al-Soussi was born in 173 AH (around 790 AD), and learned the

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from Yahya al-Yazidi, who himself had learnt from the renowned scholar and Arab linguist Abu Amr. He became known as the "

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," and was its principal

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during his time. His students in the Quran included his son Abu al-Ma'soom Muhammad and

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Chain of transmission

The ''riwayah'' of Al-Soussi is transmitted by Abu Shu'ayb al-Soussi, on the authority of Yahya al-Yazidi, on the authority of Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' al-Basri, from

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, from

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, from

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, from the

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Hadith

Al-Soussi was also a narrator of the

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. Among those who narrated from him were

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and Abu Bakr ibn Abi Asim.

'Aqeedah

Al-Soussi was an

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. It was narrated that when his daughter's husband did not explicitly reject the

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, a well-known

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position, he terminated their marriage.

Death

Al-Soussi died in Raqqa in the month of

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in 261 AH (late 874 AD).

References

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