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Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid

Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid

Abū Bakr Ibn Mujāhid (Arabic: ابن مجاهد) (Full name: أبو بكر أحمد بن موسى بن العباس بن مجاهد التميمي) (born 245AH/859-860CE in Baghdad and died 324AH/936CE) was a scholar of Islamic studies. He studied Qur'ān and Hadith in Baghdad. He was most notable for establishing the seven canonical Qur'anic readings (Qira'at).[1] His list of the seven canonical readings was made up of reciters from the cities of Mecca, Madinah, Kufah, Basra and Damascus.[2] He was also notable for delivering the charge of heretical Qur'anic exegesis that reopened the trial of Mansur al-Hallaj, and ultimately led to his execution by the Abbasid Caliphate al-Muqtadir.[3]

In addition to having established and delineated the canonical readings, Ibn Mujahid was also a student of Qunbul, one of the canonical readers.[4]

References

[1]
Citation Linkwww.jstor.orgChristopher Melchert, Ibn Mujāhid and the Establishment of Seven Qur'anic Readings Stable, Studia Islamica, No. 91. (2000), pp. 5-22.
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[2]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgibn Taymiyah, Ahmad (1995). Majmoo' al-Fatawa. Madinah, Saudi Arabia: Majma' al-Malik Fahad. pp. 13/390.
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[3]
Citation Linkopenlibrary.orgLouis Massignon, The Passion of Al-Hallaj: Mystic and Martyr of Islam, Abridged., trans. Herbert Mason. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 229-30.
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[4]
Citation Linkpropheticguidance.co.ukImām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī. © 2013 Prophetic Guidance. Published June 16, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2016.
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[5]
Citation Linkwww.jstor.orgIbn Mujāhid and the Establishment of Seven Qur'anic Readings Stable
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[6]
Citation Linkpropheticguidance.co.ukImām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī
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