Abu ‘Amr Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd ar-Rahman, al-Makhzumi, better known asQunbul (195-291 AH / 808-904 CE),[1] was one of the primary transmitters of one of theQira'at, or the canonical methods ofreading theQur'an.[2][3] Of the seven primary readings of the Qur'an, Qunbul was a transmitter of the method ofIbn Kathir al-Makki.[4][5][6] LikeAl-Buzzi, who was the other canonical transmitter of Ibn Kathir's method, Qunbul was an indirect student and lived later than the namesake of the recitation method.[7]
In addition to transmitting one of the seven primary methods of Qur'an recitation, Qunbul was also the teacher of the man who was responsible for delineating those seven canonical readings,Abu Bakr Ibn Mujāhid.[6]
