Texts from the Book Al-Qiraʾat by Abu Ḥatim Al-Sijistani as Quoted in Al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween by al-Rafiʿi: A Collection and Analytical Study

Abstract

Abstract

The science of Qur’anic Readings (ʿIlm al-Qiraʾat) is one of the noble disciplines closely connected to the Book of Allah (The Quran). Scholars have therefore paid great attention to it and authored numerous valuable works, extensive and concise, independent and supplementary.

Among these prominent scholars is Imam Abu Ḥatim al-Sijistani (d. 255 AH), who authored a book titled Al-Qiraʾat. As this book has not yet been discovered, several quotations from it were found cited by al-Rafi’i in his work Al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween. Hence, efforts were made to collect, study, and present these texts in this research entitled “Texts from the Book of Readings by Abu Ḥatim al-Sijistani as Quoted in al-Rafiʿi’s al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween: A Collection and Analytical Study.” The purpose of this study is to identify texts that shed light on the nature of Abu Ḥatim’s Book of Readings and the methodology he adopted in its composition.

The research consists of an introduction, a preface, and the first chapter: Imam Abu Ḥatim al-Sijistani, his Book of Readings, and al-Rafiʿi with his work Al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween, and this book included five sections (research areas):

First Section:

A brief biography of Imam Abu Hatim al-Sijistani,

Second Section:

Abu Hatim al-Sijistani’s book Al-Qira’at (The Readings),

Third Section:

A brief biography of Al-Rafi‘i, the author of Al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween,

Fourth Section:

His methodology in the book Al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween.

Fifth Section:

Those who narrated Kitab al-Qira’at by Abu Hatim al-Sijistani as mentioned in Al-Tadween fi Akhbar Qazween, followed by selected passages from Kitab al-Qira’at quoted in Al-Tadween.