Abu Ubaid al-Qasim bin Salam

Abu Ubaid al-Qasim ibn Sallam al-Khurasani al-Harawi (Arabic: أبو عبيد القاسم بن سلاّم الخراساني الهروي, romanized: Abū ‘Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām al-Khurāsānī al-Harawī; c. 770–838) was an Arab philologist and the author of many standard books on lexicography, Qur’anic sciences, hadith, and fiqh.

Abu Ubaid
Personal
Bornc. 154 AH/770 CE
Herat, Abbasid Caliphate
Died224 AH/838 (aged 68)
Mecca, Abbasid Caliphate
ReligionIslam
EraIslamic golden age
DenominationSunni
CreedShafi‘i
Main interest(s)History, Tafsir, Hadith, Fiqh
Muslim leader
Influenced by

He was born in Herat, the son of a Byzantine slave. He left his native town and studied philology at the Basra school under many famous scholars such as al-Asmaʿi (d. 213/828), Abu ʿUbayda (d. c.210/825), and Abu Zayd al-Ansari (d. 214 or 215/830–1), and at the Kufa school under Abu ʿAmr al-Shaybani (d. c.210/825), al-Kisaʾi (d. c.189/805), and others.

He was the first to develop a recorded science for tajwid, giving the rules of tajwid names and putting it into writing in his book called al-Qirā'āt. He wrote about 25 reciters, including the 7 mutawatir reciters.[2] He made the reality, transmitted through reciters of every generation, a science with defined rules, terms, and enunciation.[3][4] He wrote extensively on the originally revealed, but then abrogated, verses from the Qur’an. [5][6]

Selected works
  • Kitab al-Amwal (The Book of Revenue)[7]
  • Kitab Al-Nāsikh wa-l-mansūkh (The Book of Abrogation)[8]
  • Kitab Fada’il-al-Qur’an (The Excellent Qualities of the Holy Quran)
  • Kitab Al-Iman[9]

References
  1. Fleet, Kate; Krämer, Gudrun; Matringe, Denis; Nawas, John; Rowson, Everett (eds.). "Abū ʿUbayd al-Qāsim b. Sallām". Encyclopaedia of Islam (3rd ed.). Brill Online. ISSN 1873-9830. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
  2. Ajaja, Abdurrazzak. "القراءات : The readings".
  3. el-Masry, Shadee. The Science of Tajwid. Safina Society. p. 8. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  4. "What is Tajweed?". Online Quran Teachers. Archived from the original on 13 April 2021. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  5. Jeffery, Arthur (1938). "Abu Ubaid on the verses missing from the Qur'an". The Muslim World. 28: 61–65. doi:10.1111/j.1478-1913.1938.tb02422.x.
  6. Ibn Warraq, Origins of the Koran – Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book, [Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY 1998], Part Two: The Collections and the Variants of the Koran, 9. Abu ‘Ubaid on the Verses Missing from the Koran, by Arthur Jeffery, p. 151.
  7. "The Book of Revenue : Kitab Al-Amwal". BookDepository. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
  8. "Kitab Al-Nasikh Wa-l-Mmansukh of Abu 'Ubaid Al-Qasim B. Sallam". BookDepository. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
  9. "Bio of Qasim ibn Sallaam & Kitab Al-Imaan". Retrieved August 13, 2023.


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