327 – al-Zaydī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī*

The imam, scholar, Qur’an reciter, and long-lived shaykh of Harrān, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Hāshimī—an ʿAlawī, Ḥusaynī, Zaydī, Harrānī, Ḥanbalī, and adherent to the Sunnah.

He studied the variant modes of Qur’an recitation under the master Abū Bakr al-Naqqāsh.¹

From him he transmitted al-Naqqāsh’s commentary Shifāʾ al-Ṣudūr; he was the last person to narrate from al-Naqqāsh in both readings and hadith.

Those who read to him included Abū Maʿshar ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Ṭabarī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Hudhalī, and Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn al-Fatḥ al-Mawṣilī, the resident of Zuhr al-Mulk.

He was the pride of the people of Harrān.

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī said, “He was the last to recite to al-Naqqāsh. He was reliable, precise, and well-known, and he taught Qur’an in Harrān for a very long time.”²

Hibat Allah ibn Aḥmad al-Akfānī related: “I heard ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Kattānī—after I had shown him a fascicle from the books of Ibrāhīm ibn Shukr drawn from the works of al-Ājurrī, bearing an audition note that was clearly forged—say: ‘Is it not enough that ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Zaydī al-Harrānī himself lies; must people also lie in his name?’”³