The Quran in the Ibn Dhakwan ‘an Ibn ‘Amir riwaya

Ibn Dhakwan ‘an Ibn ‘Amir is one of the two transmissions of the reading of Ibn ‘Amir, the leading reader of Damascus. Its transmitter, ‘Abd Allah ibn Ahmad ibn Dhakwan al-Fihri (789–856; 173–242 AH), was imam of the Umayyad Mosque and the foremost teacher of the Quran in Syria in his day. Seldom recited today, it is mainly preserved in the teaching of the readings.

Ibn ‘Amir (642–736; 21–118 AH), a Successor who served as imam and judge of Damascus, took his reading from al-Mughira ibn Abi Shihab, a student of ‘Uthman, and according to other reports from Abu al-Darda’. Ibn Dhakwan received it from Ayyub ibn Tamim, whom he succeeded in Damascus, through Yahya al-Dhimari, Ibn ‘Amir's successor; he also read with al-Kisa’i when the latter came to Syria. His contemporary Abu Zur‘a al-Dimashqi held that no one anywhere was a better reader in his time.

Like Hisham, the other transmitter, Ibn Dhakwan reads Maliki yawmi d-dīn without the long alif and kun fa-yakūna with a final "a" in several verses, and gives the madd a medium length. He differs from him notably by applying imala to the verbs jā’a and shā’a wherever they occur, and to the noun al-miḥrābi in the genitive, while he pronounces two consecutive hamzas without an inserted alif, like Hafs.

Reciters who have recorded it include Muftah Alsaltany, Abdul Rashid Ali Sufi, Yousef Bin Noah Ahmad and Mohamed Shaaban Abu Qarn.