{{About|the canonical Qur'an reciter|the modern day prisoner|Walid bin Attash}} Abu ‘Isa Khallad Ibn Khalid al-Baghdadi, best known as '''Khallad''' (?-220AH),<ref name=ten>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> was a significant early figure in the Qira'at,<ref name=bew>Aisha Bewley, [http://www.iium.edu.my/deed/articles/qiraat.html The Seven Qira'at of the Qur'an]. International Islamic University Malaysia. Accessed April 18, 2016.</ref><ref>Edward Sell, ''Islam'', pg. 54.</ref> or variant methods of reciting the Qur'an. Khallad and Khalaf al-Bazzar were the two primary transmitters of the Qur'an reading method of Hamzah az-Zaiyyat.<ref name=ency>Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān, Vol. IV: P-Sh, pg. 360. Ed. Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2004. {{ISBN|9789004123557}}</ref><ref name=cam>Claude Gilliot, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F2oLiXT_66EC&dq=hamzah+al+kufi+qira%27at&pg=PA50 Creation of a fixed text], pg. 50. Taken from ''The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'an'' by Jane Dammen McAuliffe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|9780521539340}}</ref><ref>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>
Although Khallad was one of the primary transmitters of Qur'an recitation, he rarely taught the skill, and when he did so, he only taught a small number of select individuals.<ref>Al-Tabari, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gTPB-PCAMGwC&q=khallad+qira'at The History of al-Tabari Vol. 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood], pg. 23. Trns. Franz Rosenthal. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989. {{ISBN|9780887065637}}</ref> He was known for being one of the more meticulous reciters.<ref>Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Al-Bayan Fi Tafsir al-Quran, pg. 99. Trns. Abdulaziz Sachedina. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. {{ISBN|9780195353730}}</ref>
He died in the year 835CE.<ref name=ten/><ref name=bew/><ref name=ency/><ref name=cam/>
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