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One of two transmitters of Ya'qub al-Hadrami's Basran reading, one of the three Ibn al-Jazari added to complete the canonical ten in the fifteenth century, five hundred years after Ibn Mujahid fixed the original seven.

Facts
Recitation
Basmala Between Suras
Three Modes Permitted 1
Connected Prolongation
Four or Five Counts 1
Separated Prolongation
Two Counts 1
Takbir Between the Closing Suras
Not Part of the Reading 1
Status
Canonical Status
Mutawatir Ten 1
Reach
Where It Is Recited Today
Taught and Studied 1
Transmission
Reading Centre
Basra 1
Structure
Verse Numbering
Basran Count 1
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Rawh, and the Basran Reading of Yaqub al-Hadrami

Rawh ibn Abd al-Mu'min transmitted the reading of Ya'qub al-Hadrami, the Basran reader whose name was added, alongside Abu Jafar and Khalaf, to the seven canonical readers when Ibn al-Jazari fixed the canonical ten in the fifteenth century. Rawh's transmission is recorded at Basra, the same reading centre as Ya'qub's own, and stands beside Ruways's transmission as the two riwayat carrying this reading forward.

The transmission permits three different modes of joining or pausing at the basmala between suras, holds detached vowel lengthening to two counts against connected lengthening of four or five, and does not include the takbir as part of the reading. Verse numbering follows the Basran count, the same tradition Abu Amr's Basran reading among the seven also follows.

Ya'qub's reading, like the other two readings Ibn al-Jazari added to complete the ten, is attested by a comparatively narrower body of detailed classical commentary than the original seven, though it was, by Ibn al-Jazari's own account, transmitted by chains meeting the same tests of soundness and conformity to an Uthmanic codex. Rawh's transmission accordingly carries the standing of the ten rather than the seven, a distinction of canonical timing rather than of the reading's own soundness: it entered the fixed register five centuries after Ibn Mujahid's original selection, on the strength of Ibn al-Jazari's own review of the surviving transmission chains reaching back to Ya'qub.

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Sources
1. Al-Nashr fi al-Qira'at al-Ashr (The Publication on the Ten Readings)
Ibn al-Jazari (Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Jazari)View the Source
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