Hafs

Hafs , according to Islamic tradition, was one of the primary transmitters of one of the seven canonical methods of <a href="/facts/Qur%2527an_recitation/qQm8YesX">Qur'an recitation</a> (<a href="/facts/Qira%2527at/qQm8YesX">qira'at</a>). His method via his teacher <a href="/facts/Aasim_ibn_Abi_al-Najud/u4S4VV4M">Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud</a> has become the most popular method across the majority of the <a href="/facts/Muslim_world/n9vVGogr">Muslim world</a>.
In addition to being the student of Aasim, Hafs was also his son-in-law. Having been born in <a href="/facts/Baghdad/RbtLzzHe">Baghdad</a>, Hafs eventually moved to <a href="/facts/Mecca/udqyuk0k">Mecca</a> where he popularized his father-in-law's recitation method.
Eventually, Hafs' recitation of Aasim's method was made the official method of Egypt, having been formally adopted as the standard Egyptian printing of the Qur'an under the auspices of <a href="/facts/Fuad_I_of_Egypt/HI6Dw9IG">Fuad I of Egypt</a> in 1923. The majority of <a href="/facts/Mushaf/dXhU5eN8">copies of the Quran</a> today follow the reading of Hafs. In <a href="/facts/North_Africa/ItxQAfs7">North</a> and <a href="/facts/West_Africa/oV8Dk0kp">West Africa</a> there is a bigger tendency to follow the reading of <a href="/facts/Warsh/A2qY73Y0">Warsh</a>.

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