Al-Bazzi

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170AH

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250AH

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| 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)

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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),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}}[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. was an important figure in the transmission of Qira'at, the seven canonical methods of Qur'an reading.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. He and Qunbul were the primary people responsible for spreading the recitation method of Ibn Kathir al-Makki,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}}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}} which became especially popular among the people of Mecca.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}}

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.{{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}} Al-Bazzi was a client (mawla) of the Banu Makhzum tribe.

Al-Bazzi was considered the chief Qāriʾ in his time and was also the Mu'adhin of Al-Masjid al-Haram. He died in 864CE.