Abu ‘Isa Khallad Ibn Khalid al-Baghdadi, best known as Khallad (?-220AH),Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters. (c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016. was a significant early figure in the Qira'at,Aisha Bewley, The Seven Qira'at of the Qur'an. International Islamic University Malaysia. Accessed April 18, 2016.Edward Sell, Islam, pg. 54. or variant methods of reciting the Qur'an. Khallad and Khalaf al-Bazzar were the two primary transmitters of the Qur'an reading method of Hamzah az-Zaiyyat.Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, Vol. IV: P-Sh, pg. 360. Ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2004. Claude Gilliot, Creation of a fixed text, pg. 50. Taken from The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 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. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012.
Although Khallad was one of the primary transmitters of Qur'an recitation, he rarely taught the skill, and when he did so, he only taught a small number of select individuals.Al-Tabari, The History of al-Tabari Vol. 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood, pg. 23. Trns. Franz Rosenthal. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. He was known for being one of the more meticulous reciters.Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Al-Bayan Fi Tafsir al-Quran, pg. 99. Trns. Abdulaziz Sachedina. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
He died in the year 835CE.
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