| Shu‘bah | |
| Native Name: | Abu Bakr Shu‘bah Ibn ‘Ayyash Ibn Salim al-Kufi an-Nahshali |
| Birth Date: | 95AH/ 713CE |
| Birth Place: | Kufa |
| Death Date: | 193AH/ 809CE |
Abu Bakr Shu‘bah Ibn ‘Ayyash Ibn Salim al-Asadi al-Kufi an-Nahshali (95-193 AH/713-808 CE),[1] [2] [3] more commonly known as Shu'bah, is a significant figure in the history of Qur'an reading as well as a hadith narrator. He was a native of Kufa.[1] [2] Like Hafs, Shu'bah narrated one of seven conical readings of the Quran from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud,[4] [5] [6] [7] though the reading of Hafs is more well known in the Muslim world today.[8]
Ahmed bin Hanbal said about him: "He is truthful and trustworthy, a reciter of the Qur’an and a good person".
Ibn Al-Mubarak said: I have not seen anyone closer to the Sunnah than Abu Bakr Ibn Ayyash.[9]
Shady Nasser quotes ad-Dhahabi as bringing a report that Shu'bah rejected the reading of his contemporary Hamzah az-Zaiyyat as bid'ah.[10] [11]
It is narrated that he said: "Whoever claims that the Quran is created, in our view, is a disbeliever, a heretic, and an enemy of Allah. We do not sit with him or speak to him"[12]
When death approached him, his sister cried, so he said to her: What makes you cry? Look at that corner, for I have completed eighteen thousand recitations (of the Quran) there. He died in month of Jumada Al-Ula in the year 193AH(809 CE).