98 – al-Baṭarqānī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad

The great imam and leading authority among the Qur’an reciters, Abū Bakr Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad ibn Jaʿfar al-Iṣbahānī, known as al-Baṭarqānī.

He transmitted a vast amount of material from Abū ʿAbd Allāh ibn Manda, Ibrāhīm ibn Khurrashidh Qūla (1), Abū Muslim ibn Shahdal, Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī, Abū Jaʿfar al-Abharī, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Jaʿfar, al-Ḥasan ibn Yawhah, and many others.

He recited the Qur’an in all its recognized transmissions before the senior masters, and he authored the work Ṭabaqāt al-Qurrāʾ (Classes of the Qur’an Reciters) and the work al-Shawādh (Rare Readings).

Those who narrated from him include: Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥaddād—who also recited to him using the variant readings—Saʿīd ibn Abī al-Rajāʾ, al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd al-Malik the littérateur, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wāḥid al-Daqqāq, Aḥmad ibn al-Faḍl al-Mahhād, Shabīb ibn Muḥammad ibn Jūrah (2), ʿAbd al-Salām ibn Muḥammad al-Ḥasanābādhī (3), and others.

Among the earlier scholars who reported from him were the two ḥadith masters ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Nakhshabī and Abū ʿAlī al-Wakhshī.