Ibn Kathir al-Makki

Abu Ma‘bad Abdullah al-‘Attar al-Dari, better known as Ibn Kathir al-Makki (45-120AH),[1] was one of the transmitters of the seven canonical Qira'at, or methods of reciting the Qur'an.[2] His reading was generally popular among the people of Mecca.[3]

This article is about the canonical Qur'an transmitter. For the historian and exegete, see Ibn Kathir.

Al-Makki was born in Mecca and was one of the Tabi‘un.[4] He met the prophetic companions Anas ibn Malik and Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr,[4] and he learned his recitation method from a student of the prophetic companion Abd Allah ibn Abbas who in turn learned from Ubay ibn Ka'b and Zayd ibn Thabit who both learned directly from the prophet Muhammad.[4] Al-Shafi‘i, the namesake of one of the four primary schools of thought in Sunni Islam, preferred to recite the Qur'an according to al-Makki's method.[4]

He died in the year 737CE.[3][5] Though associated with the people of Mecca,[3][6] he was ethnically Persian. The two primary transmitters of his method of recitation, Al-Bazzi and Qunbul,[2][6] were Persian and Meccan respectively.

References
  1. Josef W. Meri and Jere L. Bacharach, Quran, Reciters and Recitation, p. 660. Taken from Medieval Islamic Civilization: L-Z. Abingdon-on-Thames: Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 9780415966924
  2. Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters. (c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016.
  3. 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. ISBN 9781850653363
  4. Imām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī. © 2013 Prophetic Guidance. Published June 16, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2016.
  5. 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: Brill Publishers, 2012. ISBN 9789004240810
  6. Shady Nasser, Canonization, p. 129.
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