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d. 154 AH / 770–771 CE No. 3 in the chain from the Prophet ﷺ العراق
Abu Amr Zabban ibn al-Ala' al-Tamimi al-Mazini of Basra, one of the seven readers, born in Mecca and raised in Basra. He read with more teachers than any other of the seven, in Mecca, Medina, Kufa and Basra, among them al-Hasan al-Basri, Mujahid, Sa'id ibn Jubayr, Ibn Kathir, Asim and Abu Ja'far. Yahya al-Yazidi, Sallam al-Tawil and Abd al-Warith ibn Sa'id read to him; he was the greatest authority of his day on the Qur'an and Arabic. He died in Kufa in 154 AH according to most.
Each route above this person as the published certificates write it, with its own number; the smallest number is the highest chain.
no. 3 from the Prophet ﷺ · through أبي عبدالرحمن السلمي · رويس وروح عن يعقوب البصري · on one certificate
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