Abu al-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn al-Qasim Ibn Nafi'i Ibn Abi Bazzah (

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: أحمد بن محمد بن عبدالله بن القاسم بن نافع بن أبي بزَّة), better known simply as al-Bazzi (170–250AH) (786/7–864/5 CE),Imām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī
. © 2013 Prophetic Guidance. Published June 16, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2016. was an important figure in the transmission of

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, the seven canonical methods of

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.Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah
The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters
(c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016. He and

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were the primary people responsible for spreading the recitation method of

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,Shady Hekmat Nasser
Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings
p. 129. Taken from ''The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh''.

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, 2012.

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Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
pg. 244.

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, 1983. which became especially popular among the people of

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.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. Al-Bazzi's forefather, Abu Bazza, was of

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descent and had reportedly converted to Islam through al-Sāʾib b. Abī al-Sāʾib Ṣayfī al-Makhzūmī (died after 638), one of the companions of the Islamic Prophet

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. Al-Bazzi was a client (''

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'') of the

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tribe. Al-Bazzi was considered the chief

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in his time and was also the

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. He died in 864CE.

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