Ibn Jammaz an Abu Jafar

Sulayman ibn Jammaz transmitted the reading of Abu Jafar Yazid ibn al-Qa'qa', the Medinan reader whose name was added, alongside Ya'qub al-Hadrami and Khalaf, to the seven canonical readers when Ibn al-Jazari compiled the ten in the fifteenth century. Ibn Jammaz's transmission is recorded at Medina, the same reading centre as Abu Jafar's own, and stands beside Ibn Wardan's transmission as the two riwayat carrying this reading forward.

The transmission recites the basmala between suras, holds detached vowel lengthening to two counts against a fuller four or five at connected junctures, and always sounds the closing mim of plural pronouns with a connecting vowel rather than leaving it silent. The takbir plays no part in the reading, and verse numbering follows the Medinan count, the tradition rooted in the city where the Quran's revelation was completed and its earliest community of readers formed.

Because Abu Jafar's reading was not among the seven Ibn Mujahid selected in the tenth century, its standing is recorded as mutawatir among the ten rather than the seven, reflecting Ibn al-Jazari's later argument that Abu Jafar's chains met the same tests of soundness, breadth and conformity to an Uthmanic codex that the original seven had met, and that excluding a reading meeting those tests was an accident of Ibn Mujahid's tenth century selection rather than a judgment on the reading's own soundness.