Al-Bazzi Explained

Al-Bazzi
Birth Date:	786CE 170AH
Death Date:	864CE 250AH
Other Names:	Abu al-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn al-Qasim Ibn Nafi'i Ibn Abi Bazzah (أحمد بن محمد بن عبدالله بن القاسم بن نافع بن أبي بزَّة)

Abu al-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn al-Qasim Ibn Nafi'i Ibn Abi Bazzah (Arabic: 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),^{[1] [2]} was an important figure in the transmission of Qira'at, the seven canonical methods of Qur'an reading.^[3] He and Qunbul were the primary people responsible for spreading the recitation method of Ibn Kathir al-Makki,^{[3] [4] [5]} which became especially popular among the people of Mecca.^[6]

Al-Bazzi's forefather, Abu Bazza, was of Persian 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 Muhammad. Al-Bazzi was a client (mawla) of the Banu Makhzum tribe.

Al-Bazzi was considered the chief Qāriʾ in his time and was also the Mu'adhin of Al-Masjid al-Haram.^[2] He died in 864CE.^{[4] [5]}

Notes and References

1. [Theodor Nöldeke]
2. http://propheticguidance.co.uk/imam-ibn-kathir-al-makki/ Imām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī
3. Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters. (c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016.
4. 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. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012.
5. [Alfred Felix Landon Beeston]
6. 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.