 Now, insha'Allah, I'm going to go into the ta'leem fi al-il l-qirat, the books that have been written in al-il l-qirat. When I say, insha'Allah, that I want to speak about the books that have been written in al-il l-qirat, what I mean by that is, as a subject and a science, al-il l-qirat, the works that have been written in it. I'm not referring to the books that have spoken about issues related to qiraat like the Kitab, the Kitab al-Fadail by Abu Ubaid Qasim al-Salam, may Allah have mercy on him. And this is the Kitab that deals with the problem of the Qur'an, whether it is by Ibn Qutayba or Mas'ahif, by Abu Dawud, Ibn Abi Dawud, may Allah have mercy on him. And the books that have been written in al-Qur'an, may Allah have mercy on them. And the interpretation of the Torah, and the meaning of the Qur'an, and the meaning of the Qur'an that is hidden, and the interpretation of the women, may Allah have mercy on them. Or even the al-Mas'ahif, the Mus'ahif by Muhammad, and what he mentioned in the or Sunan by Dawud, by Ibn Maja al-Nasa'i. I'm not referring to that. Or the Kitab of Sibawi, or even the Kitab al-Muqtadab written by al-Mubarrat. Al-Mubarrat is the Sheikh of Zajjaj. All of these scholars, they tackled issues related to al-Ulm al-Qur'an, without a doubt. And there are mubahith, there are segments, and there are chapters where you take from it al-Ulm al-Qur'an, al-Qur'an, and issues related to it. Because in our previous episode, I spoke about how al-Ulm al-Qur'an entices many other sciences. When I say al-Talif al-Ulm al-Qur'an, the books that have been written in al-Ulm al-Qur'an, I'm speaking about as an independent science, okay? As an independent science. So, as an independent science that stands by itself, that has its Dawabid, has its Qawa'id, has its structure. The scholars have categorized the books that have been written in it in three types. The first one is al-Qutb al-Mufrada, al-Qur'at al-Imam al-A'imah. A book that has written in a particular Qari, or a particular Imam from the Qur'an. So, you find a particular Qari is being spoken about here, like Hafs and Asim, for example. This book only talks about this. So, some Qutb al-Qur'at, that's how it is. It's specific to a Qari from the Qur'an. The second type of books that have been written in al-Qur'at is Qutb al-Qur'at al-Muhsah. It doesn't have in there only one Qari, but it has more than that. Which we're going to mention, either seven, eight, five, two, or more. And the third type is Qutb, which are considered Tawjih al-Qur'at. They explain the variations and the reasoning behind the Qur'at. So, those are the three types of books that have been written in al-Qur'at. Who is the first person who wrote in al-Qur'at? Scholars, they differed amongst themselves. One scholar written, one scholar, Ibn Atiyah, in the Muqaddim of his Tafseer, he said that the first person who written is Yahya ibn Ya'mar. Yahya ibn Ya'mar, he died the 90th year of the Hijriah. So, if it is true that Yahya ibn Ya'mar was the first person to write in al-Qur'at, then al-Qur'at was written in the 90th year of the Hijriah. That was when it first written as an independent science. That's very early. But I haven't seen anyone mention that other than Ibn Atiyah in his Muqaddim of his Tafseer. And even when he mentioned it, he mentioned it as Rwiyah, it was narrated that Yahya ibn Ya'mar had written a book in al-Qur'at. That's what he said. He said it was narrated. And when I looked up the biography of Yahya ibn Ya'mar, I haven't come across anyone whatsoever who actually said that Yahya ibn Ya'mar has a Kitab in al-Qur'at. So that's a point to keep in mind, insha'Allah. But what is famous and is famous in the Ahli al-Fan? What is famous and common amongst the Ulama and Al-Qur'at? The first person who wrote in Al-Qur'at is Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam, who died the year 224 Hijriah. That he is the first person who written. That's the most famous opinion amongst the Ulama. And that's why Imam al-Jazariyah said that the first Imam, Mu'attabar, who was taken into consideration, who combined Al-Qur'at is Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam was the first person who wrote in the science. And he said Imam al-Mu'attabar, an Imam that's taken into consideration, the first person is Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam, and as I said, Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam died the year 224 Hijriah. And he then said that Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam, when he wrote his Kitab in Qura'at, the Qur'at that he brought inside there were 25. I mean, 25 Qura'at. In the 25, of course, is the seven Qura'at, the seven Qura'at that we have in the Kitab, which we will mention in the Qura'at soon. So according to the most prominent, the most famous opinion to the people of Qura'at, or the scholars of Qura'at is that Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam was the first person to write in Qura'at. So this opinion that says, Ya'him ibn Ya'amar seems very weak. Maqat ibn Sulaiman also seems very weak, their opinion. Al-Imam al-Kisa'i also seems like a very weak opinion. And anyone other than that, the strongest according to the scholars of Qura'at is that the first person who wrote in this science is Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam. But the issue is we don't have his works. Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn As-Salam, he's mafqud. For now we don't have it. It's lost. It's the works that we don't have which are lost. So, what is the earliest work that we have? The earliest work that we have is an Imam known as Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid, Rahimahullah. He wrote a book called As-Sab'aaf al-Qura'at. He wrote a book called Seven in Qura'at. Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid wrote, he made the Qura'at into seven. As scholars have discussed why he did that. Some scholars, they said he did it Tabarruqan wa Tayyamunan. He did it Tabarruqan. He wanted to get barakah from the hadith al-Ahruf al-Saba'a. Because the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, said, that the Qur'an came down in seven Ahruf, seven dialects. Ibn Mujahid wanted to follow the Prophet, sallallahu alayhi wasallam, in that. So what he did was, he wrote the Qura'at in seven. Now the Qura'at and the Ahruf, are they one and the other? Are they the same thing? What is the relationship between the two? Again, don't worry about that. We will come to it, insha'Allah. But what we need to understand is, Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid wrote a book in which he called it, Kitab al-Saba'a. He has seven Qura'at. In this seven Qura'at book, he has he confused many people, based on that. How did he confuse them? Because he called his Kitab al-Saba'at, in Qura'at. So many people assumed that the Kitab al-Saba'a of Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid is actually the same as the seven Ahruf that the Prophet sallallahu alayhi wasallam was talking about. And they thought this is one and the other. And he confused so many people and scholars discussed that. But we will leave that discussion for when we speak about what al-Ahruf al-Saba'a actually means. Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid, he passed away after he authored his book. A scholar by the name of al-Hussain ibn Uthman al-Baghdadi, who died a year 378 Hijriya. He came and he wrote a book in Qura'at. And after that came al-Imam Ali al-Daraqutni, who died a year 385 Hijriya who also wrote after Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid and after al-Hussain ibn Uthman al-Baghdadi. After those came Abu al-Fat'h Uthman ibn Jinni who died a 392 Hijriya who also wrote in al-Qura'at. So what we have is we have Abu Ubaid Qasim sallam who died a 224 Hijriya. His book in Qura'at we don't have it. After him came Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid who died a 324 Hijriya. After him came al-Hussain ibn Uthman al-Baghdadi and after him came al-Imam Ali al-Daraqutni and after him came Abu al-Fat'h ibn Uthman al-Jinni and Allah have mercy upon all of them. So when it was the 5th century great scholars came out and they authored. I'm going to mention two great scholars who written in al-Qura'at the 5th century Makim ibn Abi Al-Talib who wrote a book that you can see in Qura'at 7 and Abu Amr al-Dani who wrote his book Al-Taisir in Qura'at 7 and after he came two great scholars also read in al-Qura'at Abu al-Ala al-Hammadani and al-Imam al-Shatibi Abu al-Ala al-Hammadani wrote a Qura'at 10 so he made it 10 and al-Imam al-Shatibi he wrote his Qura'at al-Alamani in Qura'at 7 and this Qura'at al-Imam al-Shatibi wrote it's a poetry form of the Qura'at al-Taisir written by Abu Amr al-Dani and he says he said that this book it's a summary of the Kitab al-Taisir by Abu Amr al-Dani that this Kitab is a summary of the Kitab written by Abu Amr al-Dani called al-Taisir and al-Shatibi say that and then he also mentioned that it's not just a summary of it and a conclusion of it but rather he's going to add some benefits and some Fawwain here or there and some places he's going to sprinkle some benefits for us which he did if you look at the book al-Alamani a lot of places he makes dua, he gives reminders he gives a heart softening point and a beneficial things he mentions al-Imam al-Shatibi what is actually amazing is that he didn't only just make poetic form the Kitab al-Taisir in the science of al-Qaraat written by Abu Amr al-Dani he also made a poetry on another Kitab written by Abu Amr al-Dani, he did the same to that as well called al-Muqna Abu Amr al-Dani has a Kitab called al-Muqna and this Kitab al-Muqna is published by Lillah al-Hamdi wal Minna it's not published in two volumes in this Kitab al-Muqna it talks about the Rasim al-Mas'haf al-Imam al-Shatibi you came and he also made a poetry on that one he called it al-Aqeelat al-Atalabi al-Qasai and and he did the same thing to that one he added benefits in there as well reminders and etc so al-Imam al-Shatibi his Kitab al-Hiruz al-Abali was written in the 6th century of Islam the 7th century a scholar by the name of Ali ibn Muhammad al-Saghawi and Al-Muddin Abu al-Hasan and don't confuse this Saghawi with the student of Ibn al-Hadir al-Saghawi that one is called Shamsuddin al-Saghawi who wrote the Kitab al-Muqith which explains the Kitab al-Fiatu al-Iraqi the teacher of Ibn al-Hadir so the student explains the teacher's book don't confuse it with that Saghawi this Saghawi is before all of that his name is Ali ibn Muhammad al-Saghawi his nickname is Al-Muddin and his khunya was Abu al-Hasan he wrote a Kitab called Fathu al-Wasid and he actually explained the Hirs al-Amani and his explanation is the first explanation of the Shatibiyah that we have today it's the first actual explanation on it so that was written in the 7th century where he went in details explaining it but it's actually not the best explanation I'm going to point out that the best explanation out even though time doesn't allow it and I would have compared the explanations but the best explanation is Siraj al-Qari Al-Muqasih Sharah is the best of the Kitab Hirs al-Amani but it's not the earliest explanation the explanation is this one Fathu al-Wasid and the easiest and the most summarized and the most basic explanation of the Kitab Hirs al-Amani is the Al-Wafi by Abdul Fattah al-Qadi Abdul Fattah al-Qadi is Sharah on the Hirs al-Amani which is very basic it's easy, a beginner can take that from a teacher in the 9th century Shaykh al-Mukri'in Ibn al-Jazari came Rahimahullah and he wrote an amazing book called Al-Nashr Kitab is it's five volumes and it's with the T'aqeeq of Aiman al-Swayt with the T'aqeeq of Aiman al-Swayt hafizahullahu ta'ala this Kitab al-Nashr al-Qara'at al-Ashr Ibn al-Jazari Rahimahullah wrote his final and last opinions in this field and he had books before that where he spoke about things like his Munjid al-Mukri'in and mentioned things there but the Kitab al-Nashr al-Qara'at al-Ashr is the final version of Ibn al-Jazari Rahimahullah and what he did was he made a a poem of poetry of this Kitab called it T'aqeeq at al-Nashr what's amazing is the T'aqeeq at al-Nashr has it has more Quran than the Quran and it also has more Turq than the Hirs al-Amani but it has less lines of poetry means less lines of poetry whereas Hirs al-Amani is 100 or something this one is only 1000 something Ibn al-Jazari summarized it more than T'aqeeq Ibn al-Jazari Rahimah gave acceptance to the Hirs al-Amani why because of the way that Imam al-Shatil is language and the way he wrote it and the beauty in it is just something else I personally have never seen any Islamic science poetry that's written as beautiful as Hirs al-Amani the beauty in it the eloquency in it the structure that Sheikh Rahimah Allah did it all the other sciences you find it's a bit rigid it's a bit hard but this one flows and smooth and it's so well presented Rahimah Allah so T'aqeeq at al-Nashr is the poetic form of the Kitab al-Nashr al-Qara'at al-Aashr well that if a student of knowledge when he wants to memorize the Ilm al-Qara'at he's advised to first of all memorize the Hirs al-Amani which is the seven Qura'at that he mentions jazal allahu bil khayrat lana qalu qurana adb and salsala al-Sama'a al-Ula al-Adli Al-Shatil mentions seven and he mentions for each of those Qura'at two Rawis then Ibn al-Jazari came and what he did was he wrote the Kitab al-Durra he did the same but two Rawis for three extra narrators three extra Qura'at abid ja'far ya'aqoob al-Khalaf ya'adi those three in there two Rawis for both each made it ten so the student memorizes the Hirs al-Amani then he goes for the Dura now he has the Qura'at al-Sughra and then what he does is that he goes to the which has more than one Rawi for every Qari this is now called the Qura'at which is the Qubra there he did what he did was he emerged the two into one he called it al-Budur al-Zahira fi al-Qura'at al-Ashrat al-Mutawatira min tariqay al-Shatibiyat al-Durra so what he did is he took the Tariqa min tariqay al-Shatibiyat al-Durra he took the Shatibiyah and the Dura emerged him so the student can take that book and benefit from it the Kitab al-Shatibiyah as I mentioned from the Shahr'ah al-Fatah al-Wassid in the Shahr'ah al-Qasid written by Al-Muddeen al-Sakhawi also from the Shahr'ah is the Kitab al-Ali al-Faridah by al-Fasi Ibrahim Al-Ma'ani by Abisham Al-Makdisi Siraj Al-Qari by Ibn Al-Qasih and Al-Wafi by Al-Qami but as I said the best Shahr'ah for it without a shadow of a doubt is the Kitab written by Siraj Al-Qari by Ibn Al-Qasih and the Shahr'ah of Ibn Al-Qasih is the best also another Kitab that a person should really look into and buy and have is the the Tadkira by Ibn Al-Galboun the Tadkira by Ibn Al-Galboun Rahimahullah he has in there 8 Qur'a and the Kitab is very beneficial it's recommended for the student to have Ibn Al-Jazari Rahimahullah all of his works in al-Qara'at are books that it has become the reference point for all of the after Ibn Al-Jazari all the scholars that came after Ibn Al-Jazari they became dependent on Ibn Al-Jazari but those are the most common the most famous books that are written and it's very necessary brothers and sisters that you read these books and you study them to have an understanding of the science al-Qara'at these books give you a good understanding and grounding once you've studied these books and you've learnt it from its people and the scholars of that field then and only then is it wise for a person to read the orientalists and what they have said because if you don't know what is for you you will not be able to defend the correct path you will not be able to respond to the doubts that are brought so study these books read them, go over them and study them deeply you'll find a lot of answers in there when we become ignorant of these books and we abandon them and all we read is what an orientalist wrote here or a Christian wrote here or even a modern day graduate from a particular university wrote here and we depend on that book this shows the weakness of our studying 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