‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Amir Ibn Yazid Ibn Tamim Ibn Rabi‘ah al-Yahsibi, better known as Ibn Amir (118 AH - 736 CE),
[Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah]
(c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016.[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
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: Brill Publishers
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, 2012. was one of the seven canonical transmitters of the
Qira'at
In Islam, ''Qirāah'', (pl. ''Qirāāt''; ar, قراءات , lit= recitations or readings) are different linguistic, lexical, phonetic, morphological and syntactical forms permitted with reciting the holy book of Islam, the Quran. Differ ...
,
[Aisha Bewley]
The Seven Qira'at of the Qur'an
International Islamic University Malaysia
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. Accessed April 18, 2016. or methods of reciting the
Qur'an
The Quran (, ; Standard Arabic: , Quranic Arabic: , , 'the recitation'), also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation from God. It is organized in 114 chapters (pl.: , si ...
.
Of the seven most famous transmitters of Qur'anic recitation, Ibn Amir was the oldest while
Al-Kisa'i
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was the youngest. Like
Ibn Kathir al-Makki, Ibn Amir was one generation removed from the primary students who spread his method of recitation to the masses. The two primary students of his method of recitation were
Hisham ibn Ammar (d. 245AH/859CE) and
Ibn Dhakwan (d. 242AH/857CE).
He was from
Damascus
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, Syria. He died in the year 736CE,
[Benham Sadeghi]
Criteria for Amending the Quran
pg. 37. Taken from ''Law and Tradition in Classical Islamic Thought: Studies in Honor of'', eds. Michael Cook, Najam Haider, Intisar Rabb and Asma Sayeed. London
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: Palgrave Macmillan
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, 2013. corresponding to the year 118AH.[
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