At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · teacher
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- al-Andalus & Europe · Levant & Iraq · Egypt & Nile
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Place in the story
Sunni (transmitted)
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Ibn Wathiq, shaykh of the qurra', the accomplished master reciter; he read the seven qira'at at Gaza and elsewhere in 595 under several of Abu'l-Hasan Shurayh's pupils, and Abu 'Abd Allah Ibn Zarqun licensed him, whence he transmitted the Taysir by ijaza. He taught recitation at Mosul, Syria and Egypt on a towering isnad 1.
Connections
- Died in
- Alexandria
People and things also explored
the Alexandria rising and its recovery (25 AH)· The Great Earthquake of 180 AH· The Revolt of Nizar ibn al-Mustansir at Alexandria and Its Suppression in 495· Abdullah al-Nadim· Abu al-Abbas al-Qurti· Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid· Ahmed Zewail· Amr Khaled
Sources
- Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 272
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Ibn Wathiq, shaykh al-qurra'”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ibn-wathiq/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.