Hirz al-Amani wa-Wajh al-Tahani (al-Shatibiyya)

حرز الأماني ووجه التهاني (الشاطبية)

Al-Shatibi's verse treatise on the seven canonical readings, known as al-Shatibiyya; the modern edition of its text states that it gathers the transmissions of the seven readers and gives the author's death as 590 AH 1.

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The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
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al-Andalus & Europe
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"Hirz al-Amani wa Wajh al-Tahani" by al-Shatibi, known as the Shatibiyya, a versified work on the seven readings of the Qur'an 1. The preface to the corrected edition says that the author gathered in it what is transmitted by the seven readers: Nafiʿ, Ibn Kathir, Abu ʿAmr, Ibn ʿAmir, ʿAsim, Hamza and al-Kisai 2.

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The local scanned edition from the Ghawthani press (fifth edition, 2010) has been read only in its first pages. Its text has not been compared with any other copy, and this entry is not to be used for transmission or teaching of the readings.

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  1. Matn al-Shatibiyya, al-Ghawthani edition, 5th ed. (2010) , p.1
  2. Matn al-Shatibiyya, al-Ghawthani edition, 5th ed. (2010) , p.3
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al-Shatibi

Al-Shatibi (d. 590) — the blind master of the qira'at; author of Hirz al-Amani wa-Wajh al-Tahani ('al-Shatibiyya'), the 1,173-verse poem that became the standard reference for all students of the readings; manuscripts of Bukhari, Muslim and the Muwatta were corrected against his memory; Ibn Khallikan visited his grave repeatedly.