On qiraət imamı və onların raviləri Десять имамов чтения и их рави

As is known, Sahabas had learnt the reading of Koran from Prophet Mohammed in a different ways. Equally, Tabiun and Atbaut-tabiun had been learning these different reading ways from Sahabas. Afterwards these different reading ways had been continued learning in the same manner and as a result different giraats had been appeared. Imams who read these giraats had been spread out Caliphate’s cities, at the same time each giraats had become famous with name of the imam who read it. In the beginning of Hijri II century the number of giraats had reached 30, on the other hand, only seven of them had been approved and read between Muslims. In particular, Ibn Kesir’s giraat was famous in Mecca, Nafi’s giraat in Medina, Ibn Amir’s giraat in Sham, Abu Amr’s and Yagub’s giraats in Basra, and Hamza’s and Asim’s giraats in Kufa. Ibn Mujahid collected these giraats in his work named ’Kitabus-Saba’ in Hijri III century. Afterwords, alBagavi had supplied Yagub al-Hadrami’s, Halaf ibn Hisham’s and Abu Jafar’s giraats to these seven giraats and had reached them to ten. At the present time 3 of these giraats are read among Muslim practically. The broadest spread giraat is Hafs version of Asim’s giraat.