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Hafs (, , 706–796 AD; 90–180 After Hijra), according to Islamic tradition, was one of the primary transmitters of one of the seven canonical methods of Qur'an recitation ( qira'at). His method via his teacher Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud has become the most popular method across the majority of the Muslim world.Bewley, Aishah. "The Seven Qira'at of the Qur'an" , Aisha Bewley's Islamic Home Page
In addition to being the student of Aasim, Hafs was also his son-in-law.Peter G. Riddell, Early Malay Qur'anic exegical activity, p. 164. Taken from Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. Having been born in Baghdad, Hafs eventually moved to Mecca where he popularized his father-in-law's recitation method.
Eventually, Hafs' recitation of Aasim's method was made the official method of Egypt,Cyril Glasse, The New Encyclopedia of Islam, p. 268. Intr. by Huston Smith. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. having been formally adopted as the standard Egyptian printing of the Qur'an under the auspices of Fuad I of Egypt in 1923. The majority of Mushaf today follow the reading of Hafs. In North Africa and West Africa there is a bigger tendency to follow the reading of Warsh.Aisha Geissinger, Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary, pg. 79. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2015.
In the 10thC, in his Kitāb al-sabʿa fī l-qirāʾāt, Ibn Mujahid mentioned the seven readings of the Quran which originally were all recited by the Prophet of Islam to his followers. Three of their readers hailed from Kufa, a centre of early Islamic learning. The three Kufan readers were Al-Kisa'i, the Kufan; Hamzah az-Zaiyyat; and Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud.
It is, alongside the Hafs 'an 'Asim tradition which represents the recitational tradition of Kufa, one of the two major oral transmission of the Quran in the Muslim World.Ibn Warraq, Which Koran? Variants, Manuscript, Linguistics, pg. 45. Prometheus Books, 2011. The influential standard Quran of Cairo that was published in 1924 is based on Hafs 'an ʻAsim's recitation.
Hafs recitation
Of all the canonical recitation traditions, only the Kufan tradition of Hafs included the Basmala as a separate verse in Chapter (surah) 1.Stefan Wild, Al-Baydawi. Quran: an Encyclopedia
Chain of Transmission
Imam Hafs ibn Suleiman ibn al-Mughirah al-Asadi al-Kufi learned from Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud al-Kufi al-Tabi'i from Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami from Uthman, Ali, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, and Zaid ibn Thabit from Muhammad.
+ Hafs' Recitation Chain of Transmission Muhammad Uthman, Ali, Ubayy ibn Ka'b, Abdullah ibn Masud, and Zaid ibn Thabit Abu 'Abd al-Rahman al-Sulami Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud Imam Hafs
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