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Hafs
A primary transmitter of a canonical method of Qur'an recitation (706–796 AD)

Hafs, a key figure in Islamic tradition, is renowned for transmitting one of the seven canonical methods of Qur'an recitation (qira'at) through his teacher and father-in-law, Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud. Born in Baghdad, Hafs moved to Mecca, popularizing Aasim’s method. His recitation became the official Egyptian standard under Fuad I of Egypt in 1923. Today, most copies of the Qur'an worldwide use Hafs’ reading, especially across the Muslim world. However, regions like North Africa and West Africa often prefer the Warsh method instead.

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Hafs recitation

Of all the canonical recitation traditions, only the Kufan tradition of Hafs included the bismillah as a separate verse in Chapter (surah) 1.9

In the 10thC, in his Kitāb al-sabʿa fī l-qirāʾāt, Ibn Mujahid mentioned the seven readings of the Quran which originally were all recited by the Prophet of Islam to his followers.10 Three of their readers hailed from Kufa, a centre of early Islamic learning.11 The three Kufan readers were Al-Kisa'i, the Kufan; Hamzah az-Zaiyyat; and Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud.

It is, alongside the Hafs 'an 'Asim tradition which represents the recitational tradition of Kufa, one of the two major oral transmission of the Quran in the Muslim World.12 The influential standard Quran of Cairo that was published in 1924 is based on Hafs 'an ʻAsim's recitation.

Chain of Transmission

Imam Hafs ibn Suleiman ibn al-Mughirah al-Asadi al-Kufi learned from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud al-Kufi al-Tabi'i from Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami from Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abu Talib, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Zaid ibn Thabit from Muhammad (SAW).

Hafs' Recitation Chain of Transmission
LevelReciter
1Muhammad (SAW)
2Uthman ibn Affan, Ali ibn Abu Talib, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, Abdullah ibn Masud, and Zaid ibn Thabit
3Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami
4Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud
5Imam Hafs

See also

Ten readers and transmitters

References

  1. Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah (8 Jan 2002). "The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters". Islamic Awareness. Retrieved 11 Apr 2016. http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Qiraat/the10.html ↩

  2. Shady Hekmat Nasser (2012). "Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings". The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh. Leiden: Brill Publishers. p. 129. ISBN 9789004240810. 9789004240810 ↩

  3. Bewley, Aishah. "The Seven Qira'at of the Qur'an" Archived 2006-05-01 at the Wayback Machine, Aisha Bewley's Islamic Home Page http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ABewley/Page6.html ↩

  4. Peter G. Riddell, Early Malay Qur'anic exegical activity, p. 164. Taken from Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. ISBN 9781850653363 https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq1v_V4haj4C&dq=nafi%27+al+madani&pg=PA164 ↩

  5. Peter G. Riddell, Early Malay Qur'anic exegical activity, p. 164. Taken from Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. ISBN 9781850653363 https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq1v_V4haj4C&dq=nafi%27+al+madani&pg=PA164 ↩

  6. Cyril Glasse, The New Encyclopedia of Islam, p. 268. Intr. by Huston Smith. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. ISBN 9780759101906 https://books.google.com/books?id=focLrox-frUC&dq=aasim+qira%27ah&pg=PA268 ↩

  7. Peter G. Riddell, Early Malay Qur'anic exegical activity, p. 164. Taken from Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. ISBN 9781850653363 https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq1v_V4haj4C&dq=nafi%27+al+madani&pg=PA164 ↩

  8. Aisha Geissinger, Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary, pg. 79. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2015. ISBN 9789004294448 https://books.google.com/books?id=7lPFCQAAQBAJ&q=warsh&pg=PA79 ↩

  9. Stefan Wild, Al-Baydawi. Quran: an Encyclopedia /wiki/Al-Baydawi ↩

  10. "Sahih Muslim 819a - The Book of Prayer - Travellers - كتاب صلاة المسافرين وقصرها - Sunnah.com - Sayings and Teachings of Prophet Muhammad (صلى الله عليه و سلم)". sunnah.com. https://sunnah.com/muslim:819a ↩

  11. Dutton, Yasin (2012). "Orality, Literacy and the 'Seven Aḥruf' Ḥadīth". Journal of Islamic Studies. 23 (1): 1–49. doi:10.1093/jis/etr092. ISSN 0955-2340. JSTOR 26201011. http://www.jstor.org/stable/26201011 ↩

  12. Ibn Warraq, Which Koran? Variants, Manuscript, Linguistics, pg. 45. Prometheus Books, 2011. ISBN 1591024307 /wiki/ISBN_(identifier) ↩