Qunbul

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'''Abu ‘Amr Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd ar-Rahman, al-Makhzumi''', better known as '''Qunbul''' (195-291 AH / 808-904 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> was one of the primary transmitters of one of the Qira'at, or the canonical methods of reading the Qur'an.<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><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> Of the seven primary readings of the Qur'an, Qunbul was a transmitter of the method of Ibn Kathir al-Makki.<ref>Jane Dammen McAuliffe, [https://books.google.com/books?id=F2oLiXT_66EC&dq=qunbul&pg=PA50 The Cambridge Companion to the Qur'ān], pg. 50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|9780521539340}}</ref><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=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> Like Al-Buzzi, who was the other canonical transmitter of Ibn Kathir's method, Qunbul was an indirect student and lived later than the namesake of the recitation method.<ref>Nöldeke et al., ''The History of the Qur'an'', pg. 518.</ref>

In addition to transmitting one of the seven primary methods of Qur'an recitation, Qunbul was also the teacher of the man who was responsible for delineating those seven canonical readings, Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid.<ref name=guide/>

He died in the year 904 CE.<ref name=Umayyad/><ref name=shady129/>

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