Abū Maʿbad (or Abū Bakr) ʿAbd Allāh ibn Kathīr al-Dārānī al-Makkī, better known as Ibn Kathir al-Makki (665–737 CE [45–120 AH]),Josef W. Meri and Jere L. Bacharach, Quran, Reciters and Recitation, p. 660. Taken from Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis, 2006. was one of the transmitters of the seven canonical Qira'at, or methods of reciting the Qur'an.Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters. (c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016. His recitations were generally popular among the people of Mecca.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.
Biography Al-Makki was born in Mecca and was one of the Tabi‘un.Imām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī . © 2013 Prophetic Guidance. Published June 16, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2016. His family was of Iranian origin and were immigrants to Yemen. Al-Makki was a mawla ("freedman") of Amr ibn Alkama al-Kinani.
Al-Makki met the companions of Prophet Muhammad Anas ibn Malik and Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, and he learned his recitation method from a student of Prophet Muhammad's companion Abd Allah ibn Abbas who in turn learned from Ubay ibn Ka'b and Zayd ibn Thabit who both learned directly from Prophet Muhammad. Al-Shafi‘i, the namesake of one of the four primary schools of thought in Sunni Islam, preferred to recite the Qur'an according to al-Makki's method.
He died in the year 737CE.Shady Hekmat Nasser, Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings, p. 49. 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. The two primary transmitters of his method of recitation, Al-Bazzi and Qunbul,Shady Nasser, Canonization, p. 129. were Persian and Meccan respectively.
See also Ten readers and transmitters Nafi‘ al-Madani Qalun Warsh Ibn Kathir al-Makki Al-Bazzi Qunbul Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala' Ad-Duri Al-Susi Ibn Amir ad-Dimashqi Hisham ibn Ammar Ibn Dhakwan Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud Shu'bah Hafs Hamzah az-Zaiyyat Khalaf Khallad Al-Kisa'i Abu al-Harith Ad-Duri Abu Ja'far 'Isa ibn Waddan Ibn Jummaz Ya'qub al-Yamani Ruways Rawh Khalaf Ishaq Idris
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