About the Scholar Muhammad ibn Ibn al-Jazari
Ibn al-Jazarī successfully memorized the entire Qur`ān at the early age of 13, and a year later, in 765 AH, was picked to lead the community in salāh. He soon resulted in this singular feat with an initiation into the study of the different qirā'āt [Qur`ānic readings] at the hands of the master reciters [qurrā'] of the Levant, Online Quran Classes for Adults . 6 Notables amongst his many scholars from the Levant include Ibn al-Sallār, Ahmad al-Tahhān, and Ahmad ibn Rajab. The study and rendering of the whole seven readings [sab˘ah qirā'āt] were conducted under the guardianship of such masters as Ibrāhīm al-Hamawī and Abū al-Ma˘ālī ibn al-Labbān which he completed in the year 768 AH. In the same year, he traveled to Hijāz [now part of Saudi Arabia] for Hajj where he repeatedly studied the seven readings poem in Arabic, this time as directed in al-Kāfī of Ibn al-Shurayh and al-Taysīr of Abū ˘Amr al- Dānī under the Imām of Medina, Muhammad ibn ˘Abd Allāh. His full name is Mu...