The Quran in the Ad-Duri ‘an Abi ‘Amr riwaya

Al-Duri ‘an Abi ‘Amr is the reading of Abu ‘Amr ibn al-‘Ala’, the leading reader of Basra, as transmitted by Hafs ibn ‘Umar al-Duri (767–860; 150–246 AH), a blind reader and grammarian of Baghdad who also transmitted the reading of al-Kisa’i. It is today the most widespread reading in Sudan, and it is also recited in neighbouring regions, including parts of Chad.

Abu ‘Amr (d. 770; 154 AH), born in Mecca and a leading authority on the Arabic language in Basra, had more teachers than any other of the seven readers, in Mecca, Medina, Kufa and Basra — among them Mujahid, Sa‘id ibn Jubayr, Ibn Kathir and Abu Ja‘far; his reading goes back through Ibn ‘Abbas to Ubayy ibn Ka‘b. His two transmitters received it from his student Yahya ibn al-Mubarak al-Yazidi. Named after al-Dur, a quarter of Baghdad, al-Duri travelled to collect the readings and is said to have been the first to gather them in a book.

Al-Duri reads the separated madd short or medium, pronounces with full imala an alif followed by a final ra in the genitive (an-nāri, al-abrāri) and slightly inclines (taqlil) the final alif of words such as ad-dunyā. Unlike al-Susi, Abu ‘Amr's other transmitter, he keeps silent hamzas, and the major assimilation (al-idgham al-kabir), associated with al-Susi, is generally not applied in his transmission. Like Nafi‘, Abu ‘Amr reads Maliki yawmi d-dīn (1:4) without the long alif.

Reciters who have recorded it include AlFateh Muhammad Zubair, Mahmoud Khalil Al-Husary, Musa Bilal and Yousef Bin Noah Ahmad.