The Rijal Status of 'Asim in Rijal Sources of Fariqayn and an Examination of a Doubt about Asim's Recitation of the Qur'an

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 PhD student in Qur'anic and Hadith Sciences, Department of Quranic Sciences and Jurisprudence, Faculty of Theology, Shiraz University. Shiraz, Iran

2 Associate Professor, Department of Quranic Sciences and Fiqh, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Theology, Shiraz University. Shiraz, Iran

Abstract

The recitation of Hafs by 'Asim is one of the seven common recitations in the Islamic world, which has become a popular recitation in most Islamic societies during the last few centuries, and the copies of the Qur'an are published based on it. Some have questioned the authenticity of 'Asim and Hafs and claimed that this recitation cannot be the Qur'an revealed by Allah to the Holy Prophet. In this study, we introduce 'Asim and describe his Rijal (a branch of hadith sciences that discusses the qualities of the hadith transmitters, especially their reliability in hadith transmission) personality through a descriptive-analytical method, and we can see that only a few cases of 'Asim's shortcomings have been mentioned in Shia and Sunni religious sources, which we rejected with reasons. Even on the assumption of accepting their validity, it can be seen that this small amount was not significant compared to this validity of Asim's confirmations. The maximum result it will give is that 'Asim did not focus on the field of hadith and was not recognized as a muhaddith, and this cannot cause any problems in his recitation.

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