I had a question about these sunnahs.
I heard Hishām b. Hakīm b. Hizām reciting sūra al-Furqān (Qur’ān, 25) in a different manner from my
way of reciting it, and God’s messenger had taught me to recite it. I nearly spoke sharply to him,
but I delayed till he had finished, and then catching his cloak at the neck I brought him to God’s
messenger and said, “Messenger of God, I heard this man reciting sūra al-Furqān in a manner different
from that in which you taught me to recite it.” He told me to let him go and told him to recite. When
he recited it in the manner in which I had heard him recite it God's messenger said, “Thus was it sent
down.” He then told me to recite it and when I had done so he said, “Thus was it sent down. The Qur’ān
was sent down in seven modes of reading, so recite according to what comes most easily.”
Ibn ‘Abbās reported God’s messenger as saying, “Gabriel taught me to recite in one mode, and when I
replied to him and kept asking him to give me more he did so till he reached seven modes." Ibn Shihāb
said he had heard that those seven modes are essentially one, not differing about what is permitted
and what is prohibited.
Can some one provide links were I can read the seven canonical modes of Quranic recitation?
Which is most easy to recite?
I heard Hishām b. Hakīm b. Hizām reciting sūra al-Furqān (Qur’ān, 25) in a different manner from my
way of reciting it, and God’s messenger had taught me to recite it. I nearly spoke sharply to him,
but I delayed till he had finished, and then catching his cloak at the neck I brought him to God’s
messenger and said, “Messenger of God, I heard this man reciting sūra al-Furqān in a manner different
from that in which you taught me to recite it.” He told me to let him go and told him to recite. When
he recited it in the manner in which I had heard him recite it God's messenger said, “Thus was it sent
down.” He then told me to recite it and when I had done so he said, “Thus was it sent down. The Qur’ān
was sent down in seven modes of reading, so recite according to what comes most easily.”
Ibn ‘Abbās reported God’s messenger as saying, “Gabriel taught me to recite in one mode, and when I
replied to him and kept asking him to give me more he did so till he reached seven modes." Ibn Shihāb
said he had heard that those seven modes are essentially one, not differing about what is permitted
and what is prohibited.
Can some one provide links were I can read the seven canonical modes of Quranic recitation?
Which is most easy to recite?