The Quran in the Hisham ‘an Ibn ‘Amir riwaya

Hisham ‘an Ibn ‘Amir is one of the two transmissions of the reading of Ibn ‘Amir, the leading reader of Damascus. Its transmitter, Abu al-Walid Hisham ibn ‘Ammar al-Sulami (770–859; 153–245 AH), was the preacher of the great mosque of Damascus, its mufti, its foremost teacher of the Quran and one of its leading hadith scholars. Seldom recited today, it is mainly preserved in the teaching of the readings.

‘Abd Allah ibn ‘Amir al-Yahsubi (642–736; 21–118 AH), a Successor, was imam of the Umayyad Mosque and judge of Damascus; the caliph ‘Umar ibn ‘Abd al-‘Aziz prayed behind him. His chain, the shortest among the seven readers, runs through al-Mughira ibn Abi Shihab to ‘Uthman, and according to other reports through Abu al-Darda’. Hisham received the reading from ‘Irak al-Murri and Ayyub ibn Tamim, students of Yahya al-Dhimari, Ibn ‘Amir's successor. Al-Bukhari narrates hadith from him in his Sahih.

Like Ibn Dhakwan, the other transmitter, Hisham reads Maliki yawmi d-dīn without the long alif and kun fa-yakūna with a final "a" in several verses. Peculiar to him are Ibrāhām instead of Ibrāhīm in part of its occurrences, imala in a few words such as ‘ābidūna in surah al-Kafirun, and an alif inserted between two consecutive hamzas (ā’andhartahum). He gives the madd a medium length.

Reciters who have recorded it include Yousef Bin Noah Ahmad, Mohamed Shaaban Abu Qarn and Ahmed Aissa El Masarawi.