Waleed Basyouni – Intro To The Men Behind The Most Famous Qiraat
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Also, one of the things that I would
like you to be aware of, you heard
about Qiraat, Shaykh Yasir Burja spoke about it,
I will be speaking about it a little
bit.
So one of the Qiraat is named Asim
ibn Abi Nujood, Asim, we use his Qiraat
a lot.
And Asim ibn Abi Nujood, Abu Bakr, okay,
his father, his name is Bahdala, okay, Sayyid
Abdullah, and it was said Bahdala is his
mom, not his, where is Buna again?
But it was said Abdullah actually, not Bahdala.
There is a debate over there, but the
majority said Bahdala is his father's name.
Anyway, he was born during Mu'adh ibn
Abi Sufyan's time, so he is among the
Tabi'een, among the successors, and he was
very eloquent in Arabic language, okay.
And Al-A'nash and Asim Abu Hussain,
all of them are blind.
Him, he lost his eyesight, Asim ibn Abi
Nujood.
All of us read Qur'an today, those
who don't have Qiraat, but the Qiraat that
we all use, the Qiraat of Asim, okay.
He was blind, rahimahullah ta'ala.
One narration that once he was led by
someone, and this person didn't pay attention.
So Asim fell in a ditch, and he
hurt so much.
They said Asim never complained, never said to
the person be careful, never made any complaint
about it, rahimahullah ta'ala.
And he was very avid worshipper, very eloquent,
and also very well mannered.
And his voice was amazing.
They said when he used to pray, you
would think that this is a piece of
wood.
He doesn't move, rahimahullah ta'ala.
And he used to stay every day, on
Friday, in the masjid, from fajr all the
way to asr.
Doesn't leave the masjid, okay.
And always seen praying, rahimahullah ta'ala.
And one time, to show you how much
he's attached to the masjid, he was going
to buy something from the suq, so he
passed by the masjid.
He said to the one who was with
him, let's go pray first.
He said, what about the thing that we're
going to buy from the suq?
He said, don't worry, it's not going to
go away.
Let's go pray.
He prayed, and he prayed two rak'ah,
then after that they went to the suq
to continue.
But when he passed by a masjid, he
said, let's stop and go pray.
He's one of the famous seven qurra, rahimahullah
ta'ala, imam, okay.
And he was the greatest qari in Al
-Kufa, after his sheikh, Abu Abdurrahman Al-Sulami,
rahimahullah.
And Abu Abdurrahman Al-Sulami is one of
the greatest qurra, he's a sheikh.
And when Abu Abdurrahman Al-Sulami died, Asim
came and sat in his place.
People traveled to him from all over the
world to learn from him.
Because his recitation and his pronunciation and his
qurra is the most easy, clear, simple, one
of all what the Arab, no, no.
And Abu Ishaq Al-Sabi'i said, I've
never seen anyone read the qurra like Asim
Ibn Abu Al-Nujood.
And he's also a great scholar in Arabic
language, in Nahu.
And also, Shariq said, كان صاحب مد وهمز,
his med, you know the med when you
say, و السماء, this med, you stretch, you
know.
He said, he do it perfectly, rahimahullah ta
'ala.
And he also, from Ahlus Sunnah, Athari, when
it comes to the aqeedah, rahimahullah ta'ala.
كان رأسا في القرآن, يعني the leader when
it comes like in the qurran, when he
came to Al-Basrah, these two cities are
rival to each other.
It's like, I feel shy to say this
example, so I'm not going to say it,
because I'm talking about the qurran.
Like imagine two rival cities, okay, here in
England.
Al-Kufa and Al-Basrah are the same
thing.
They just can't stand each other.
Let's say Liverpool and Manchester, okay, you know,
so jealous of each other.
So Al-Basrah and Al-Kufa are the
same thing.
So when he came to Al-Basrah, usually
Al-Basrah don't care about the scholar of
Al-Kufa.
They look down upon them, and Al-Kufa
have their own style.
Anyway, so when he came to Al-Basrah,
all the people of Al-Basrah came to
study under him.
Hands down, he's the best.
رحمه الله تعالى طيب And Shaqeeq ibn Salama,
Shaqeeq ibn Salama Abu Wael is way more
senior than Asim.
Way more senior than him.
And Shaqeeq, when he met Asim, he kissed
Asim's hands.
He said, because of your, you know, level
of mastering the Qur'an.
Abdullah ibn Ahmad, he said, I asked my
father, Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal, what do you
think of Asim ibn Bahdala?
قَالَ رَجُلٌ صَالِحٌ خَيْرٌ ثِقَةٌ Righteous man, good
man, trustworthy.
He said, what's the best qira'ah you
like?
What's the best qira'ah for Qur'an
you like?
He said, the qira'ah of Ahl al
-Madina, the people of Madina.
If you couldn't, Asim.
And he was asked, what about Hamad ibn
Abi Sulayman or Asim?
He said, Asim is more beloved to me.
Asim is a scholar of Qur'an and
Hamad is a scholar of fiqh.
Asim met some of the companions and he
learned from him.
He's a very young tabi'i.
He met, for example, Rifa'ah al-Yathrib
al-Tamimi and al-Harith ibn Hassan, all
companions.
Asim, rahimahullah, said, I was sick for two
years.
I was sick for two years.
And after my sickness, very sick, like almost
died.
And it looks like during these two years,
so sick, can't move.
In these two years, he made a decision,
I guess, if he'd been going back to
Allah SWT to bring him shifa'ah, that
he would make a change in his life.
That's why he said, after I was cured,
two years of sickness.
After that, I dedicated my life to the
Qur'an, so I memorized it, and I
never, ever made the mistake for a single
letter or a single verse.
Kana Asim, Allah SWT said, the most beautiful
voice in Qur'an, rahimahullah wa ta'ala,
in his time.
And he recited the Qur'an to Abdurrahman,
Abu Abdurrahman al-Sulami, and Zirr ibn Hubaysh.
So he takes his favorite shaykh, or two,
Abu Abdurrahman al-Sulami and Zirr ibn Hubaysh.
And Sa'ad ibn Yas Shaybani and others.
But these two, or these three, all of
them read the Qur'an from who?
From Abdullah ibn Mas'ud, okay?
And Abu Abdurrahman al-Sulami and Zirr read
the Qur'an with Uthman ibn Affan and
Ali ibn Abi Talib.
So his qira'ah goes to these three
sahaba, mainly.
Ibn Mas'ud, and Ali, and Uthman.
So our qira'ah goes in our isnat,
go all the way to these companions.
And al-Sulami also read with Ubay ibn
Ka'b and Zayd ibn Ka'b.
So also, this you can include.
Something that was mentioned about him, rahimahullah wa
ta'ala, that he became one of the
scholars of Qur'an, that people, as I
said, traveled to learn from him.
And that were his specialty.
Al-'Ulamah, rahimahullah, debated over Asim.
And I want you to pay attention to
this, because it's going to happen several times.
Asim, rahimahullah, in hadith, there is a whole
debate about is he thiqa or not.
It looks like his accuracy in memorizing the
hadith is not like the way he memorized
the Qur'an.
Zalik al-Dhabi, rahimahullah, qala, laysa hadithu bil
-kabir, it's not the best, okay?
Kana yukhti'u fi hadithi, Ibn Sa'd said.
He will make mistakes.
Okay?
Yahya ibn Ma'in al-Nasai said, he's
okay.
Laysa bihi bas.
These words are not words that show full
confidence regarding the scholar in his narration and
hadith.
He died, rahimahullah, at 129.
So the end of the second century, okay?
Nobody knows exactly where he died, but the
majority of scholars said in Al-Kufa.
In Al-Kufa.
Some people said no, he died actually in
Al-Sham, Al-Samawa.
Al-Samawa, I think, is part of Iraq
today, but closer to Syria.
Okay?
Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash said, I was there
when Asim died.
When Asim died.
In his deathbed.
He said he fainted.
Fa-ughmiya alayhi.
Then he wake up, he regain consciousness.
And he recited, when he regain his consciousness
back, he recited, He said, then they returned
to the Lord.
The Lord who is the truth.
And he is lahul hukm.
He's the one who judge.
And he is the fastest judge.
Rahimahullah.
That's the verse that he recited.
Basically, then they returned to the Lord.
And he died, rahimahullah, right after that.
Tayyip.
Asim has students.
One of the most important name of the
students are two.
Shu'ba ibn Ayyash, Al-Asti, Al-Kufi,
Abu Bakr.
Okay?
And there is a debate over his name,
but Shu'ba is the most famous and
the most authentic one.
And also another name, Abu Bakr.
Okay?
He was born 95 Hijri.
And he lived for a long time, rahimahullah.
He died 193.
So died at what age?
How old when he died?
He born 95, died 193.
98 years.
He lived, rahimahullah.
So that means he will have what?
A lot of students.
Okay?
He was also known for piety.
And he was faqih.
And he knows history, rahimahullah ta'ala.
Yahya ibn Said said, I was in the
company of Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash.
It looks like Abu Bakr is not a
name.
Maybe it's a kunya for him.
That's why people thought it's a name.
His name is Shu'ba.
And he said, I never seen anyone more
pious than him, more avoiding to what is
makrooh like him.
One time, somebody give him a gift, which
it was date.
And he was told later on, he took
it, okay, from the garden of Khalid ibn
Salamah al-Makhzumi.
This man found the dates, and he just
collected from tree that belong to a man,
his name Khalid.
He said he didn't eat from it until
he went to this man and he said,
Is this allowed for me to eat?
What am I allowed to eat?
Is this really taken with your permission?
They said yes.
Then he went back, and he was thinking,
maybe they just said that to me.
They felt shy.
He's well known.
So what he did, he donated it, and
he said, If they said that out of
being shy, the sadaqah of this date will
go to them and to me.
He didn't eat it.
That's how much he cares about only consuming
what's halal.
Somebody who recite the Quran, somebody so care
about what comes inside it.
Also, he was an athari when it comes
to the aqeedah.
Like the one before, they have so many
statements to confirm Allah's attributes and refute the
people of Ahlul Kalam at that time.
Ibn Mubarak said, مَا رَأَيْتُ أَحَدًا أَسْرَعَ إِلَى
السُّنَّةِ مِنْ أَوِيبَكَ إِبْنِ عَيَّاشِ He is one
person, always follow the sunnah.
The sunnah here means the correct aqeedah.
That's why when he heard about what Ibn
Ulayya said about Al-Quran, that one of
the creation of Allah.
He said, Whoever claims that Al-Quran is
not Allah's words, is kafir, zindiq.
We don't talk to him.
We don't speak to them.
Okay?
Yahya Ibn Ma'in said, أَبُو بَكْرِ بْنِ
عَيَّاشِ لَمْ يُفْرَشْ لَهُ فِرَاشْ خَمْسِينَ سَنَةً Fifty
years, he never sit on a mattress or
in a pillow.
He sit on the floor.
رَحِيمَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى For forty years, he used
to recite the Quran every night.
He make khatmah every day.
رَحِيمَهُ اللَّهُ Ali Abdullah Ibn Ahmad said, I
asked my father, Did you see Abu Bakr
Ibn Ayyash in Al-Kufa on Friday?
He came to the masjid on a donkey.
Then he came, basically he was carried in
a donkey.
فَجَاءَ إِلَى سَارِيَةٍ مِن سَوَارِ الْمَسْجِدِ He came
and he prayed behind one of the pillars
in the masjid.
And he kept praying, praying, praying.
قَالَ فُمَّ حَسَرَ عَنْ كُمِّ قَمِيصِ He said,
he was praying and he has a long
sleeve.
He said, he's telling his father, Did you
see him today when he came?
He said when he was praying, it was
a long prayer, so he kind of pulled
his sleeve.
He said, Wallahi, I only saw a skin
on the bones.
He's so skinny, he's so skinny.
It means also he's very old.
رَحِيمَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى And I was amazed by
how old he is, how skinny he is,
but yet he's praying that long prayer.
رَحِيمَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى هَرُونُ الرَّشِيدُ The Khalifa brought
him from Al-Kufa.
So he came with Waqi' ibn al-Jarrah.
Waqi' ibn al-Jarrah is a great scholar.
He took him and he was leaving him
to Al-Rashid, the Khalifa.
Al-Rashid said, Come closer to me.
You have witnessed the Umayyads and the Abbasids.
Which one do you like more?
What a problem, man.
Those rulers like to put you in trouble.
He said, The Umayyads benefit people more, like
financially.
But you guys care for the Salah more
than them.
Then Al-Rashid said, You can go.
And he gave him 6,000 pieces of
gold, dinar.
And he gave Waqi' who brought him 3
,000.
He said, رَحِيمَهُ اللَّهُ One of his famous
statements, Abu Bakr did not reach his status
because he prays a lot or fast a
lot.
It's because something he believed in, something in
his heart.
His love and fear and respect for Allah,
basically.
And he said, الدخول في العلم سهل He
said, This is very interesting.
قَالُوا الْخُرُوجُ مِنْهُ شَدِيدٌ He said, To become
a student of knowledge, it's easy.
But to leave knowledge is so hard.
It's something so serious.
Because if you become a student of knowledge
and a scholar, then you flip, you're the
worst.
But if you're not a scholar, a student
of knowledge from outside, it's fine.
When you start learning, it's easy.
You enter, you enjoyed it.
But when you become a scholar, a student
of knowledge, you find that there is so
much responsibility in you.
And it became hard.
In the beginning, people are excited, but later
on, they feel the responsibility that they have.
And that's not to discourage you.
No, it's meant to make you appreciate and
be prepared for that responsibility that you get.
For this, I want to say, because this
is something people can misunderstand.
Your value is not determined by where you
stand in a time of ease and comfort.
Your real value is determined by where you
stand and what you do in a time
of hardship, in a time of challenge, in
a time when there is big responsibility.
That's where your value comes.
That's why the people of ilm, yes, it's
not easy.
It's a big responsibility.
It is hard.
But that's what makes you a valuable person.
Those who choose to stay in the shade,
those who stay to avoid, that does not
make you valuable.
That's why Nabi ﷺ said, the one who
mix with people and be patient with them
is much better than the one who avoid
people, who want to stay in their comfort
zone.
There's two different levels.
Also, one thing about him, rahimahullah, especially seeking
knowledge, especially the Quran.
He said, Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash said, I
did not see someone read like Asim, my
sheikh.
And I recited with him.
And I have not seen anyone have more
fiqh than al-Mughira.
And I studied with him.
So he was searching for the best.
And that's something we learned from his life.
He was looking for the best reciter, the
best faqih, the best scholar, in each field.
Asim knows also fiqh, but he wants the
best in each field.
He read the Quran with Asim three times,
three khatmas, rahimahullah ta'ala.
And his isnad and qira'ah goes all
the way to Ibn Mas'ud.
And he said, I studied from Asim the
same way the child study, or the boy,
study in the madrasah, in the kuttab.
He found out, I gave him a hard
time.
Like kids give the teacher a hard time,
I gave him a hard time.
He said, but, you know what, I enjoy
it and I don't know how to recite
with any other recitation.
So he only knows Asim.
He said, more detail, how he learned under
Asim, something for us to learn.
He said, I used to learn five verses,
then five verses, then five verses, and so
on.
Why five?
Because that's the way the Prophet ﷺ used
to receive the Quran in the beginning from
Jibreel, five verses at the time.
He said, I never read the Quran with
someone else.
For 30 years, in the summer, in the
winter, in the rainy day, in the sunny
day, I will come to him.
And sometime, رُبَّمَ اسْتَحِيَيْتُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْمَسْتِدِ بَنِي
كَاهِرٍ He said, sometimes I feel embarrassed because
of the people who live in this, who
live around the masjid, and pray in this
masjid, they see the stranger coming all the
time.
And I feel sometimes embarrassed because how many
times I will come, and how much time
I will spend with him.
وَحِيمَهُ اللَّهِ And when he teach me five
verses, he said, خُذْهَا, take these verses.
It is better than whatever the sun rise
over.
And wallahi, it was better for me than
anything else in this world.
I appreciate the Quran more than any gain
I can gain in this world.
Once, when he said, I come like the
boy when he goes to the teacher.
When the kids go to the teachers, what
else you know about kids?
Kids are what?
Have no knowledge.
A kid's first time to go to the
madrasa, learn Quran, well you start with the
qaeda, you start with the basic, know nothing.
He was saying, when I came to Asim,
I was like a kid.
I know nothing about the Quran.
That's why Asim told him once, after he
listened to his recitation.
He said, احمد الله.
Say, الحمد لله.
You came to me, and you know nothing.
وَمَا تُحْسِنُوا شَيْئًا You started with me from
zero, basically.
He said, yes, because I left the كتاب,
I left the madrasa, where they teach you
the basic letters, straight to you.
I didn't go anywhere else.
So that's something you also reflect upon, for
you.
You know, you might start later, but you
start from zero.
But you can achieve to be what?
Guys, shu'ba is one of the main
qira'ah that we have today, and hafiz.
And the most famous people who recited Quran
from him, his students, Abu Yusuf al-Asha,
and Urwah al-Asdi, and Abu Amr al
-Dani, and Sahl ibn Shu'aib, and Yahya
ibn Muhammad al-Ulaymi.
Okay?
So Abu Amr al-Dani, which is one
of the qira'ah.
Those five, what's interesting, we don't know anyone
have recited the whole Quran with shu'ba,
other than these five scholars.
But some people recited part of the Quran
with him, like al-Qasai and Yahya ibn
Ali.
He's imam in Quran.
But again, in hadith, his recitation is weak.
Rahimahullah ta'ala.
That's why Imam Ahmad ibn Ma'in and
Abu Hatim, they said he's trustworthy as a
person, and reciting Quran.
But when it comes to the hadith, his
narration has weakness in it.
Rahimahullah ta'ala.
Okay.
He died in 193, 96 years old, rahimahullah
ta'ala, after a long life in ta
'atillah.
And he stopped reciting Quran, teaching Quran to
people, seven years before his death, rahimahullah ta
'ala.
Because he couldn't, he's not sure about his
like, how he can correct them, so he
stopped seven years.
Upon his death, his sister was next to
him, crying.
Listen carefully to this.
He said to her, why are you crying?
She said, because you're gonna die.
He said, don't worry about me.
Look at this.
And he pointed to the corner of his
room, and he said, do you see this
corner, this spot?
She said, yes.
He said, I made 18,000 khatma, 18
,000 khatma in this corner, in my life.
18,000 khatma, in this corner.
I'm not worried.
The other famous student of Asim, his name
is what?
Hafs, that we recite all with Hafs.
Hafs Ibn Sulaiman, Abu Amr Al-Asdi.
Al-Asdi is not from Bani Asad, but
he's a father slave from Bani Asad, and
were free.
He took the name after them.
Anyway, he is very close friend to Asim,
his Sheikh.
Okay?
And he is his what?
Stepson.
So Asim married a woman who has a
son.
That son is Hafs.
So Asim is his stepfather.
Okay?
So that means he lived in his house,
close to him, Rahimahullah Ta'ala.
We know that he died, okay, basically, 108,
Rahimahullah Ta'ala.
No, 180, sorry.
He died 180, because he was born 90
Hijri.
He was born 90 Hijri, so younger than
the one before, 95.
90 Hijri and he died 80.
So that means he lived how many years?
90 years.
MashaAllah.
Okay, he's one of the Qura'at Sab
'ah, the Qura'at of Ahlul Kufa, Rahimahullah.
And he used to consider him in his
Hifz, above Shu'ba.
His memorization, his perfection of the Qur'an,
above Shu'ba.
And he is the best one who memorized
Asim, Qira'ah.
He perfected his stepfather's Qira'ah, Rahimahullah Ta
'ala.
He lived in Baghdad.
Basically, he went to Baghdad, and he taught
the Qur'an in it.
Then he stayed in Mecca, and he taught
the Qur'an in it, Rahimahullah Ta'ala.
Once he said, Muhammad Ibn Said Al-A
'uf, his father said to Hafs Ibn Sulaiman,
if you meet Hafs, if you have met
Hafs, you would have been so pleased with
his understanding and his knowledge.
So he's not only memorizing, but also his
understanding.
And Yahya Ibn Ma'in said, the best
Qira'ah for the Qur'an is Hafs
and Asim.
Hafs and Asim.
He studied, basically, with his stepfather, Asim, and
he made so many Khatm al-Qur'an
with him.
And his Isnat goes all the way to
Ali Ibn Abi Talib, Rahimahullah Ta'ala.
Then one time, Hafs said to Asim, by
the way, your student Shu'ba, read with
things that I don't know.
Like, he has certain pronunciations, certain Qira'ah,
different than me.
And we all study under you.
Then he said, I taught you what Abu
Abdur-Rahman al-Sulami taught me from Ali
Ibn Abi Talib.
And I taught him what Zir Ibn Hubaysh
taught me from Abdullah Ibn Mas'ud.
So Shu'ba goes up to Mas'ud,
yours goes to Ali Ibn Abi Talib.
That's why you see the difference.
Okay?
He taught so many people.
Amr Ibn al-Sabah, Ubaid Ibn al-Sabah,
Hamza al-Ahwal, you know, Khalaf al-Haddad,
so many.
Also, he narrated hadith from so many scholars,
Rahimahullah.
But again, he was criticized, Hafs also, for
his narration of hadith.
So the scholar of hadith said, his narration
of hadith is not as accurate as the
Quran.
And I think the reason for, everybody so
far has a problem with narrating the hadith.
I think because, first, the hadith is very
different style.
It's names, this person from this person, from
this different Asanid.
Also, I think these people dedicated all their
life to the Quran.
So, it's hard to combine between multiple, you
know, knowledge like this.
Yaqul Imam al-Dhabi, Rahimahullah, wa maa zala
fi kulli waqtin yakunu al-'alimu imaman fi fan.
It's a common thing that al-'alim will be
a leading scholar in one field.
Muqassiran fi fanoon, but not as good in
other areas, in other subjects.
And this is the case of Hafs.
Thabtan fil qira'ah.
He's excellent in qira'at al-Quran.
Wahyan fil hadith.
Weak in hadith.
Al-'a'mash was the opposite.
Excellent in hadith, and his qira'ah has
mistakes.
Tayyib layyinan fil huroof.
Even though, this has been said, you will
find narration in hadith in al-Tirmidhi, al
-Nasa'i, al-Musnad, you know, al-Nasa
'i, sorry, al-Musnad Ali, you will find
a hadith narrated for him.
He died 180, and he's 90 years old,
and it was said, no, he died Rahimahullah
ta'ala, later on he was 90, actually,
he was 88, he was about 90 years
old, it was said, no, he died earlier
than that, about 88 or something like this.
Rahimahullah.
Tayyib, are you guys following me?
We'll stop.
Anybody else you want to know from the
qira'ah?
Nafi'ah.
Have you heard of Nafi'ah before?
Nafi'ah.
Any qari here?
Huh?
Huh?
Can you recite something for them from Nafi
'ah?
Different than Hafs?
He didn't know much.
Okay.
Nafi'ah Ibn Abdul Rahman Ibn Abi Nu
'aym al-Laythi Abu Ruwaym.
He's Madani.
He's originally from Asbahan.
Oh, Zubair, you know recitation from Nafi'ah?
Can you show them something that's different than
what they know about Hafs?
Just for them to understand.
Can you give him the mic?
Until you give him the mic, he was
born during Abdul Malik Ibn Marwan.
And he was very dark black colored, rahimahullah.
Aswadan ha'ikan.
You know, ha'ikan.
He is so dark, so black.
With this they said, but his face shining
like the full moon.
Unbelievable when it comes to manners.
And he was to be funny.
And you can smell what?
Smell the musk from his face, from his
mouth when he speaks.
His breath is very good.
Every time you come to teach Quran, you
put so much perfume.
He said, wallahi, I never touch perfume.
But I saw the Prophet in my dream
once.
And the Prophet in my dream was reciting
straight to my mouth.
His mouth in front of my mouth.
So even I feel the breath of the
Prophet coming to my mouth.
In my dream.
And I wake up from my dream and
since then that smell that you smell comes
every time I recite the Quran.
Then he said, how come your face is
shining and you so black?
Like this.
People are very rude.
I don't know what is like.
And also your manners.
Then he said, because this happened to me
after I saw the Prophet in my dream
and I shook his hand.
And I read Quran to him in my
dream.
They said, Nafi was one of the purest
people in body, in physically and in manners.
And the best reciter.
He is very famous in Medina.
And he was the leader.
You know in Medina to be the leader
of the Quran, that's so hard.
Because Medina where the Sahaba majority are.
So for him to be the leader, that's
why Malik said, Nafi the Imam of the
Qira'ah in Medina.
And Imam Ahmad used to say, the best
Qira'ah ever, the Qira'ah of Nafi,
the Qira'ah of Ahlul Medina.
Al-Layth said, I made Hajj 113 Hijri.
And I noticed that, I found the Imam
who lead the prayer and the one who
teach the Quran.
And everybody admit that he is the leader,
is Nafi.
Ibn Abi Nu'aym, Rahimahullah.
And Al-Asma'i, Ibn Mujahid, all admit
that he is the greatest scholars of Qira
'at, Rahimahullah.
And he used to be an Athari, somebody
follow the early generation in Aqeedah.
And he perfect the Quran with so many
Tabi'een, Rahimahullah to the extent, he said
Nafi, I study the Quran under 70 Tabi
'een, 70 successor.
Okay?
And like Ibn Shihab, like you know, others
Rahimahullah.
Al-A'raj, Al-A'raj recited the
Quran from Abu Hurairah, from Ibn Abbas, Okay?
And Nafi teach Quran for a very long
time.
And many people recited Quran from him, like
Ibn Malik, Rahimahullah, and others.
And among his famous students, obviously, Qaloon and
Warsh, as you're gonna hear now.
Abu Duhya said, Ya Abu Hurair, do you
teach people Quran with all the Qira'at
that you have learned?
He said, Subhanallah, you want to prevent, why
would I prevent myself from the Ajr?
Yes.
I teach people from all the Qira'at
that I learned, so I can get the
Ajr multiple times.
So I recite this verse with this Qira
'at, then with this Qira'at, so I
can double basically my reward.
My reward.
One time, and this is important, very important.
Sometimes one time a person came and he
said to him, he's the leader imam of
Quran.
Somebody, random person came and he said, خذ
علي الحدر.
I'll teach you حدر.
How to recite حدر.
Nafi' said, what's حدر?
I've never heard of that.
Then he said, no no no, something I
invented.
He said, read.
Then he read.
He said, Nafi', that's not how we read.
إِنَّ لَا نُسْقِطُ الْإِعْرَابِ And we don't, we
pronounce the dhamma, the letter carefully.
And we do not, we keep the shadda.
We don't make tasheel.
And we do not make the mad short.
And we don't make some letter give it
mad.
We only read, listen carefully.
We only read the way the leader of
the companions of Muhammad ﷺ read.
We don't read any other than that even
if it is afsah even if it is
the most pure Arabic way of reading.
Even if it's from Arabic perspective, it's perfectly
correct.
We don't read this way.
Our Qur'an is only taken from narrations,
not based on Arabic language.
That's an essential narration of understanding the concept
of qiraat and the concept of ahraf.
It's not someone so good in Arabic and
he make his own way based on Arabic
understanding.
He said, no, that's not how it is.
It is only from what the sahaba have
taught the tabi'een and only what the
sahaba took it from the prophet ﷺ.
Qiraatuna qiraatul mashaykh nasma'u fil Qur'an
wa la nasta'amilu fihil ra'i.
We read what we heard.
We don't based on opinion and understanding and
different way of Arabic language.
It's not how it works.
Rahimahullah ta'ala.
Nafi' was also known for riwayatul hadith, but
here he reported very few ahadith rahimahullah ta
'ala.
But again his narration and hadith was criticized.
Imam Ahmad said yu'khadu anhu al Qur
'an wa laysa fil hadithi bishay.
You read take Qur'an from him, but
not hadith.
So that's why you will not find narration
from him in kutubul sitta in narration for
hadith because majority of the muhaddithin did not
like his notation in hadith.
He died rahimahullah in Medina 170-169 hijri.
And upon his death, he gathered his children
and they told him father, give us a
wasiyyah give us a reminder before you die.
Then he recited, see that's the people of
the Qur'an.
When they think of advice, they think of
Qur'an.
Not like us, we give our talk and
our.
Then he said fattaqullaha wa aslihu thata baynikum
wa ati'ullaha wa rasulahu in kuntum mu'mineen.
He said, have taqwa of Allah and make
sure that what between yourself is salah, is
righteous, is good.
And obey Allah and his messenger if you
truly believe.
What a verse.
Especially brothers because they fight one another, they
might have disagreement with each other.
He wanted them to be always reconciled with
one another, good and excellent relationship with each
other.
Come on, go ahead and recite something from
them from Nafir.
Just a couple of verses to show the
difference.
Maybe start with hafiz and follow to that
with Nafir.
You can do from qaloon, whatever you want.
Okay, so bismillah, I'll do hafiz and then
I'll do qaloon and Nafir.
From the beginning of surah Baqarah.
A'udhu billahi minash shaitanir rajim bismillah irrahman
irrahim alif laam meem zanika
alkitabu la rayba feeh hudal lilmuttaqeen allatheena
yu'minoon bilghaybi wayuqeemoon assalata wamimma razaqanahum yunfiqoon
wamimma razaqanahum yunfiqoon allatheena yu'minoon
bimaa unzila ilayka wamaa unzila min qablika wabil
aakhirati hum yuqinoon wabil aakhirati hum yuqinoon
ulaika ala hudan min rabbihim waulaika hum
almuflihoon inna allatheena kafaroosawa unalayhim
aanzartahum aanzartahum amlam tunzirhum laa
yu'minoon inna allatheena kafaroosawa unalayhim
aanzartahum inna allatheena kafaroosawa unalayhim
aanzartahum amlam tunzirhum laa yu'minoon ahsan so