{{Infobox scholar | honorific_prefix = | name = Al-Bazzi | honorific_suffix = | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | birth_name = <!-- use only if different from full/othernames --> | birth_date = 786CE<br />170AH | birth_place = | death_date = 864CE<br />250AH | death_place = | death_cause = | nationality = | citizenship = | other_names = Abu al-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn al-Qasim Ibn Nafi'i Ibn Abi Bazzah (أحمد بن محمد بن عبدالله بن القاسم بن نافع بن أبي بزَّة) | occupation = | period = | known_for = | 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 = | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = }} '''Abu al-Hasan Ahmad Ibn Muhammad Ibn ‘Abdillah Ibn al-Qasim Ibn Nafi'i Ibn Abi Bazzah''' (Arabic: أحمد بن محمد بن عبدالله بن القاسم بن نافع بن أبي بزَّة), better known simply as '''al-Bazzi''' (170–250AH) (786/7–864/5 CE),<ref>Theodor Nöldeke, Friedrich Schwally, Gotthelf Bergsträsser and Otto Pretzl. [https://books.google.com/books?id=uKEHNcrPC9cC&dq=qunbul&pg=PA530 The History of the Qur'an], pg. 530. Ed. Wolfgang H. Behn. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2013. {{ISBN|9789004228795}}</ref><ref name=guide>[http://propheticguidance.co.uk/imam-ibn-kathir-al-makki/ Imām ibn Kathīr al-Makkī] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160706231738/http://propheticguidance.co.uk/imam-ibn-kathir-al-makki/ |date=2016-07-06 }}. © 2013 Prophetic Guidance. Published June 16, 2013. Accessed April 13, 2016.</ref> was an important figure in the transmission of Qira'at, the seven canonical methods of Qur'an reading.<ref name=aware>Muhammad Ghoniem and MSM Saifullah, [http://www.islamic-awareness.org/Quran/Text/Qiraat/the10.html The Ten Readers & Their Transmitters]. (c) Islamic Awareness. Updated January 8, 2002; accessed April 11, 2016.</ref> He and Qunbul were the primary people responsible for spreading the recitation method of Ibn Kathir al-Makki,<ref name=aware/><ref name=shady129>Shady Hekmat Nasser, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Kx7i2Y56WuYC&dq=aasim+qira%27ah&pg=PA57 Ibn Mujahid and the Canonization of the Seven Readings], p. 129. Taken from ''The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur'an: The Problem of Tawaatur and the Emergence of Shawaadhdh''. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2012. {{ISBN|9789004240810}}</ref><ref name=Umayyad>Alfred Felix Landon Beeston, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Y0QkhaK4kBUC&dq=qunbul&pg=PA244 Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period], pg. 244. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. {{ISBN|9780521240154}}</ref> which became especially popular among the people of Mecca.<ref>Peter G. Riddell, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Tq1v_V4haj4C&dq=nafi%27+al+madani&pg=PA164 Islamic scripture and textual materials], p. 18. Taken from ''Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses''. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2001. {{ISBN|9781850653363}}</ref>
Al-Bazzi's forefather, Abu Bazza, was of Persian descent and had reportedly converted to Islam through al-Sāʾib b. Abī al-Sāʾib Ṣayfī al-Makhzūmī (died after 638), one of the companions of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad.<ref name="EI3">{{EI3|title=al-Bazzī|last=Nasser|first= Shady H.|year=2020|url=https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopaedia-of-islam-3/al-bazzi-COM_41036}}</ref> Al-Bazzi was a client (''mawla'') of the Banu Makhzum tribe.<ref name="EI3"/>
Al-Bazzi was considered the chief Qāriʾ in his time and was also the Mu'adhin of Al-Masjid al-Haram.<ref name=guide/> He died in 864CE.<ref name=shady129/><ref name=Umayyad/>
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