{{notability|1=Biographies|date=January 2024}} {{Short description|Primary transmitter of the Qira'at (died 919 CE)}} {{Infobox religious biography | honorific_prefix = | name = Al-Ashnani | native_name = الأشناني | native_name_lang = Arabic | honorific_suffix = Sheikh of the readers in Baghdad | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = 841 CE / 227 AH | birth_place = | death_date = 919 CE / 307 AH | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = Ahmed bin Sahel bin Al-Fairouzan Abi Al-Abbas Al-Ashnani | occupation = | period = | known_for = Qu'ran recitation, Hadith recitation | home_town = | title = | boards = <!--board or similar positions extraneous to main occupation--> | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = <!--notable national-level awards only--> | website = | education = | alma_mater = <!--will often consist of the linked name of the last-attended higher education institution--> | thesis_title = | thesis_url = | thesis_year = | school_tradition = | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | influences = <!--must be referenced from a third-party source--> | era = | discipline = <!--major academic discipline – e.g. Physicist, Sociologist, New Testament scholar, Ancient Near Eastern Linguist--> | sub_discipline = <!--academic discipline specialist area – e.g. Sub-atomic research, 20th-century Danish specialist, Pauline research, Arcadian and Ugaritic specialist--> | workplaces = <!--full-time positions only, not student positions--> | doctoral_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | notable_students = <!--only those with WP articles--> | main_interests = Qu'ran | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | teacher = Obaid bin Al-Saba | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = | religion = Islam }} '''Al-Ashnani''' (841 - 919 CE/ 227 - 14th Muharram 307 AH)<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=التاريخ |first=تراحم عبر |title=أبي العباس أحمد بن سهل بن الفيرزان الأشناني |url=https://tarajm.com/people/10252 |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=tarajm.com |language=AR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=إسلام ويب - سير أعلام النبلاء - الطبقة السابعة عشر - الأشناني- الجزء رقم14 |url=https://islamweb.net/ar/library/index.php?page=bookcontents&idfrom=2833&idto=2833&bk_no=60&ID=2695 |access-date=2023-06-29 |website=islamweb.net |language=ar}}</ref> (Arabic: الأشناني) was a famous qur'an and hadith reciter. He was equally famous in both disciplines.<ref name=":0" /> In qu'ran recitation, Al-Ashnani was a student of Obaid bin Al-Saba, and holds a place in many Ijazah lineages. Al-Ashnani lived for at least part, if not all, of his life in Baghdad.<ref name=":0" /> He died at the age of 80 years, by the Islamic calendar.<ref>{{Cite web |title=موسوعة التراجم والأعلام - الأشناني |url=https://www.taraajem.com/persons/106341/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A3%D8%B4%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A |access-date=2023-06-30 |website=taraajem.com}}</ref> He lived during the time of the Abbasid Caliphate, during the period of the fracture into autonomous dynasties. Baghdad had moved from the capital of a great empire towards a period of declining power at this time.
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Category:Quranic readings Category:919 deaths Category:Hadith narrators Category:841 births
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