ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad ibn al-Ḥammāmī, ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Jawharī, Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn al-ʿAllāf al-Kabīr, ʿUbayd Allah al-Maṣāḥifī, Abū al-Ḥusayn Aḥmad ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Sūsangarīdī, and others besides them.

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī devoted an extensive biographical entry to him, praised him highly, and said, “Since Ibn Mujāhid, no one has equalled Ibn Abī Hāshim in knowledge and understanding, coupled with the truthfulness of his speech and the uprightness of his way.”

He adhered to the Kufan school of recitation. When Ibn Mujāhid passed away, the scholars unanimously agreed to advance Abū Ṭāhir to occupy his seat and teach in his stead; the leading figures therefore sought him out and gathered in study circles around him. He had, however, diverged from all his peers by introducing imāla (the front-vowel tilt) in the word al-nās according to the reading of Abū ʿAmr (1), a practice for which the other reciters reproached him.

He was born in 280 AH and died in Shawwāl 349 AH.

9 – Abū al-Khayr al-Tīnatī al-Aqṭaʿ*
A devout worshipper, endowed with extraordinary spiritual states and miracles; he was a dark-skinned man from the Maghrib. He settled in Tīnāta, a district of Aleppo, and it is said that his given name was Ḥammād. He kept the company of Abū ʿAbd Allah ibn al-Jallāʾ and lived for a time on Mount Lebanon.