qirataasimkoufi

خيركم من تعلم القرآن وعلمه

Khairukum man ta’allamal Qur’aana wa ‘allamahu (Bukhari)

Abu ‘AmrḤafṣ ibn Sulaymanal-Asadi al-Kufi
حفص بن سليمان
Personal Life
BornAD 706
Baghdad, Umayyad Caliphate
DiedAD 796 (aged 89–90)
Kufa, Abbasid Caliphate
Home townMakkah
ParentSulayman ibn al-Mughirah ibn Abi Dawud (father)
Known forTransmitting a Qira’at which became the famous riwayat in Arabia, India and even the western counteries
Religious life
ReligionIslam
Muslim leader
TeacherAasim ibn Abi al-Najud
StudentsObaid bin Al-Saba

Hafs (Abū ʽAmr Ḥafṣ ibn Sulaymān ibn al-Mughīrah ibn Abi Dawud al-Asadī al-Kūfī, Arabic: أبو عمرو حفص بن سليمان بن المغيرة الأسدي الكوفي, 706–796 AD; 90–180 AH),[1][2] according to Islamic tradition, was one of the primary transmitters of one of the seven canonical methods of Qur’an recitation (qira’at). His method via his teacher Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud has become the most popular method across the majority of the Muslim world.[3]

In addition to being the student of Aasim, Hafs was also his son-in-law.[4] Having been born in Baghdad, Hafs eventually moved to Mecca where he popularized his father-in-law’s recitation method.[4]

Eventually, Hafs’ recitation of Aasim’s method was made the official method of Egypt,[5] having been formally adopted as the standard Egyptian printing of the Qur’an under the auspices of Fuad I of Egypt in 1923.[4] The majority of copies of the Quran today follow the reading of Hafs. In North and West Africa there is a bigger tendency to follow the reading of Warsh.[6]

Hafs recitation

The Great Mosque of Kufa, 1915 CE

Of all the canonical recitation traditions, only the Kufan tradition of Hafs included the bismillah as a separate verse in Chapter (surah) 1.[7]

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.[8] Three of their readers hailed from Kufa, a centre of early Islamic learning.[9] 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.[10] 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.

LevelReciter
1Muhammadﷺ Sallalallahu Alaihi Wa Sallam ( Peace and Mercy of Allah Be Upon him!
2Uthman ibn Affan ؓؓ, Ali ibn Abu Talibؓؓ, Ubayy ibn Ka’bؓؓ, Abdullah ibn Masud,ؓؓ and Zaid ibn Thabitؓؓ
3Abu ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami ؒ
4Aasim ibn Abi al-Najudؒ
5Imam Hafsؒ

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.
  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.
  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
  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
  5.  Cyril Glasse, The New Encyclopedia of Islam, p. 268. Intr. by Huston Smith. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. ISBN 9780759101906
  6.  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
  7.  Stefan Wild, Al-Baydawi. Quran: an Encyclopedia
  8.  “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.
  9.  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.
  10.  Ibn Warraq, Which Koran? Variants, Manuscript, Linguistics, pg. 45. Prometheus Books, 2011. ISBN 1591024307
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