This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ... IBN KHALLIKAN'S BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY. AASIM IBN ABI N-NAJUD. Abii Bakr Aasim was the son of Abu 'n-Najtid Bahdala, a mawla to the tribe of Jadima Ibn Malik Ibn Nasr Ibn Koain Ibn Asad. His acquaintance with the koranic readings drew upon him general notice and ranked him as one of the seven great masters of that science. He had learned it from Abu Abd ar-Rahman as-Sulami (1) and Zirr Ibn Hubaish (2); he taught it to Abu Bakr Ibn Aiyash (see vol. I. page 553) and Abu Omar al-Bazzaz (3), but these two varied very much in their manner of reading certain words. Aasim died at Kufa, A.H. 545 127 (A. D. 744-5).--The word najM signifies a female wild ass not pregnant; others say that she is thus designated when keeping watch on the top of a hill.--Some persons state that Bahdala was his mother's name (not his father's). (1) Abo Abd ar-Rahman Abd Allah Ibn Habtb as-Sulami al-Kufi (a member of the tribe of Sulaim and a native of Kafa) was born in the lifetime of Muhammad. He learned to read the Koran under the tuition of the khalifs Othman and Ali, and then taught the same science in the great mosque of Kufa. He died A. H. 74 (A.D. 693-4).--(Ad-Dahabi's Tabakat al-Kurra.) (2) Abu Miryam Zirr Ibn Hubaish Ibn Hubasa, a member of the tribe of Asad and a native of Kufa, was one of the great masters in the art of reading the Koran. He was celebrated also as a philologist, and died at a yen advanced age, A. H. 82 (A. D. 701).--(Ad-Dahabi's Tabakat al-Kurrd, fol. 8.);3) Ab(t Omar Hafs Ibn Abi Dawud al-Bazzaz, the disciple of al-Aasim, was a native of Kufa and a mawla to the tribe of Asad. Born A H. 90 (A.D. 708-9); died A H. 180 (A.D. 796-7).--Tab. al-Kurra.) VOL. II. 1 ABU BURDA IBN ABI MUSA. Abu Burda Aamir was the son of Abu Musa Abd Allah Ibn Kais...