, 1915 CE|left Of all the
canonical recitation traditions, only the Kufan tradition of Hafs included the
bismillah as a separate verse in
Chapter (surah) 1. In the 10thC, in his
Kitāb al-sabʿa fī l-qirāʾāt,
Ibn Mujahid mentioned the
seven readings of the Quran which originally were all recited by the Prophet of Islam to his followers. Three of their readers hailed from
Kufa, a centre of early Islamic learning. The three Kufan readers were
Al-Kisa'i, the Kufan;
Hamzah az-Zaiyyat; and
Aasim ibn Abi al-Najud. It is, alongside the Hafs 'an 'Asim tradition which represents the recitational tradition of
Kufa, one of the two major oral transmission of the Quran in the Muslim World. The influential standard
Quran of Cairo that was published in 1924 is based on Hafs 'an ʻAsim's recitation. == Chain of Transmission ==