‘Abdullah Ibn ‘Amir Ibn Yazid Ibn Tamim Ibn Rabi‘ah al-Yahsibi, better known as Ibn Amir (died 118 AH / 736 CE),Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters. (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: Brill Publishers, 2012. was one of the seven canonical transmitters of the Qira'at,Aisha Bewley, The Seven Qira'at of the Qur'an. International Islamic University Malaysia. Accessed April 18, 2016. or methods of reciting the Qur'an.
Of the seven most famous transmitters of Qur'anic recitation, Ibn Amir was the oldest while Al-Kisa'i was the youngest.Shady Nasser, Canonization, pg. 38. Like Ibn Kathir al-Makki, Ibn Amir was one generation removed from the primary students who spread his method of recitation to the masses.Shady Nasser, Canonization, pg. 154. The two primary students of his method of recitation were Hisham ibn Ammar (d. 245AH/859CE) and Ibn Dhakwan (d. 242AH/857CE).Claude Gilliot, Creation of a fixed text, pg. 50. Taken from The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Shady Nasser, Canonization, pg. 129.
He was from Balqa'a in Jordan.Claude Gilliot, Creation, pg. 149.Edward Sell, The Faith of Islam, pg. 54. Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge, 2013 reprint. 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: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. corresponding to the year 118AH.
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