10 Imāms of Qirāʾāt and their Transmitters

1. Nāfiʿ al-Madanī (70–169 AH)

Qālūn (120–220 AH) Narrates directly

Warsh (110–197 AH) Narrates directly

2. Ibn Kathīr al-Makkī (45–120 AH), Tābiʿī

al-Bazzī (170–250 AH) → ʿIkrimah ibn Sulaymān → Shibl → Ibn Kathīr 2 wāsiṭah

Qunbul (195–291 AH) → Abū al-Ḥasan Aḥmad → Abū al-Ikhrīṭ Wahb → Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbdillāh → Shibl → Ibn Kathīr 4 wāsiṭah

3. Abū ʿAmr al-Baṣrī (68–154 AH)

Ḥafṣ al-Dūrī (d. 246 AH) → Yaḥyā al-Yazīdī → Abū ʿAmr 1 wāsiṭah

al-Sūsī (d. 261 AH) → Yaḥyā al-Yazīdī → Abū ʿAmr 1 wāsiṭah

4. Ibn ʿĀmir al-Dimashqī (8–118 AH)

Hishām (153–245 AH) → Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith → Ibn ʿĀmir 1 wāsiṭah

Ibn Dhakwān (173–242 AH) → Ayyūb → Yaḥyā ibn al-Ḥārith → Ibn ʿĀmir 2 wāsiṭah

5. ʿĀṣim al-Kūfī (d. 127 AH)

Shuʿbah (95–193 AH) Narrates directly

Ḥafṣ (90–180 AH) Narrates directly

6. Ḥamzah al-Kūfī (80–156 AH)

Khalaf (150–229 AH) → Sulaym → Ḥamzah 1 wāsiṭah

Khallād (d. 220 AH) → Sulaym → Ḥamzah 1 wāsiṭah

7. al-Kisāʾī al-Kūfī (119–189 AH)

al-Layth (d. 240 AH) Narrates directly

al-Dūrī: Ḥafṣ, the transmitter of Abū ʿAmr (see above) Narrates directly

8. Abū Jaʿfar al-Madanī (d. 130 AH), Tābiʿī

ʿĪsā ibn Wardān (d. 160 AH) Narrates directly

Ibn Jammāz (d. 170 AH) Narrates directly

9. Yaʿqūb al-Ḥaḍramī al-Baṣrī (117–205 AH)

Ruways (d. 238 AH) Narrates directly

Rawḥ (d. 234 AH) Narrates directly

10. Khalaf al-Kūfī, the transmitter of Ḥamzah (see above)

Isḥāq (d. 286 AH) Narrates directly

Idrīs (189–292 AH) Narrates directly