# Khallad

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{{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](/source/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](/source/International_Islamic_University_Malaysia). Accessed April 18, 2016.</ref><ref>Edward Sell, ''Islam'', pg. 54.</ref> or variant methods of reciting the [Qur'an](/source/Qur'an). Khallad and [Khalaf al-Bazzar](/source/Khalaf_al-Bazzar) were the two primary transmitters of the [Qur'an reading](/source/Qur'an_reading) method of [Hamzah az-Zaiyyat](/source/Hamzah_az-Zaiyyat).<ref name=ency>[Encyclopaedia of the Qurʾān](/source/Encyclopaedia_of_the_Qur%CA%BE%C4%81n), Vol. IV: P-Sh, pg. 360. Ed. [Jane Dammen McAuliffe](/source/Jane_Dammen_McAuliffe). [Leiden](/source/Leiden): [Brill Publishers](/source/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](/source/Jane_Dammen_McAuliffe). [Cambridge](/source/Cambridge): [Cambridge University Press](/source/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](/source/Leiden): [Brill Publishers](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Franz_Rosenthal). [Albany](/source/Albany%2C_New_York): [State University of New York Press](/source/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](/source/Abu_al-Qasim_al-Khoei), [Al-Bayan Fi Tafsir al-Quran](/source/Al-Bayan_Fi_Tafsir_al-Quran), pg. 99. Trns. [Abdulaziz Sachedina](/source/Abdulaziz_Sachedina). [Oxford](/source/Oxford): [Oxford University Press](/source/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/>

==References==
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