Overview History of Qiraat | Mufti Abu Layth

is that so i so so you see the in order to trace the history of the that's slightly a shift to what you're talking about okay so the history of the quran can be summed up by saying that for example just as in fifth we had these great scholars like malik and shafi the four major schools of thought and of course the japanese as well so in a very similar way there came this time in around the second century or the early third century when uh very great kharis are the the reciters they were invested with this uh with this uh privilege that they could choose between

the various readings which they had inherited from the sahaba and the tabern which means that they could choose before them people had people had different readings coming from the same sahabi abdullah namas saying something regarding one verse and another thing regarding in other words so what happened was in this third century when these famous seven reciters which were as you said rightly chosen by abu bakr mujahed they formed a whole system of in which what they did was that for example one person called nafe he chose a single reading which amongst many other variations for

example from alif lam meme to annas each verse would be having different variations so he came forward and he set his own criteria and he chose one or he preferred one variation as a holding preference to all the same for each verse in this manner we got a systematic seven seven variate a variation uh possessing quran in which each of these cyborgs they are they chose on certain criteria that i will choose this reading uh if for example if a verse had seven variations or six variations so typically imam nafee would say okay i choose one of them and this is my reason of preference

and for the next verse there are three variations okay this is my my preference of course that preference was that singular thing a single principle but he applied that principle to all those recitations and came up with a single version for each verse which was his preference so just to clarify to uh for some people who may be not so uh privileged to fully understand the discourse that in the time of uthman radiollahuan when he had laid out a kind of template for the quran it was a consonantal kind of template which

because of not having vowels could be read if you try to read it let's say you could read it in a different way like if i it's not a good example but like let's approximates like let's say today text message language wt would be what but it could be wit it could be wet it could be now people would normally know if i said what you doing they you know they wouldn't think wit or what you doing but if somebody who wasn't maybe privy they could start reading it differently is this uh and then people are sometimes inheriting these

varied uh readings by people and certain people are choosing they're kind of like saying well i'm adopting this part from this person this part from this person and they then get quite popular with it so now as an example and ask him as an example ask him if robin a jew then different people and kassai these kind of these several but let's say seven who become really popular they choose they end up becoming the kind of the vocal piece for a particular select reading uh is this what we're uh this is what we're saying yeah doctors okay but you know here

comes the question that okay so from these seven let's say and there may have been many more that were doing it but these seven who get popular you've got