القرآن ورش أثمان حدر للمراجعة

The Holy Qur’an, recited by Hadar, narrated by Warsh on the authority of Nafi’, via Azraq Uthman, in the voice of reciter Rachid Balaashia

Translated by Imam Nafi:

He is Nafi bin Abdul Rahman bin Abi Naim, Al-Madani, one of the seven reciters, from the third class after the Companions, trustworthy, and originally from Isfahan. He was black in color, bright-faced, good-natured, and had a good sense of humour. He read to seventy of the followers in Medina, and he recited Al-Muwatta to Imam Malik, and Imam Malik recited the Qur’an to him, and he ended up being the head of the recitation in Medina. His students Qalun said about him: “Nafi’ was one of the purest people in character and one of the best people in reading. He prayed in the mosque of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, for sixty years.” Saeed bin Mansour said: “I heard Malik bin Anas say: ‘The recitation of the people of Medina is a Sunnah.’” It was said to him: Is reading beneficial? He said: “Yes.”

Nafi devoted himself to teaching the Qur’an in Medina, and sat in the Prophet’s Mosque reading and teaching for about seventy years, until he died, may God have mercy on him in the year 169 AH.

Translated by Imam Warsh:

He is Abu Saeed Othman bin Saeed bin Adi Al-Masry, nicknamed Bursh due to his extreme whiteness. He traveled from Egypt to Medina, and recited several seals from Nafi’, then returned to his country and became his sheikh of recitation, and the most respected among the people in knowledge. He was proficient in Arabic and intonation with a beautiful voice, a perfect control of what he narrated. He died - may God have mercy on him - in the year 197 AH.

Reading Hadar:

It is reading quickly, taking into account the rules of Tajweed. It is one of the three levels of recitation, and Hadr is considered the best of them. It is completely different from reading investigation, as when Ibn Mujahid was asked, “Who is the most readable of people?” He said: Whoever investigates hard work, and whoever says the best of them is investigation with contemplation, even if it is with little recitation, because the purpose of the Qur’an is to understand it and act upon it, and its recitation and memorization is only a means to that, then all ranks are permissible, and each rank has its status, investigation for teaching, hard work for study and recall, and rotation for understanding and contemplation.