The Quran in the Qalun ‘an Nafi‘, Abu Nashit route riwaya

Qalun ‘an Nafi‘ by the Abu Nashit route is the transmission of Qalun as received by his student Abu Nashit Muhammad ibn Harun, a reader and hadith narrator of Baghdad who died in 872 (258 AH). It is the route adopted by al-Dani in al-Taysir and then by al-Shatibi in his poem, and therefore the one in which Qalun is most often taught and recited.

In the science of the readings, the qira’a is the reading of an imam (here Nafi‘ of Medina), the riwaya its transmission by one of his transmitters (Qalun), and the tariq, or route, the path by which that riwaya was handed down through the transmitter's students and their successors. Routes of the same riwaya agree on essentials and differ only in details of pronunciation.

Abu Nashit, Muhammad ibn Harun al-Rab‘i, read with Qalun; Ibn Abi Hatim considered him truthful and al-Daraqutni trustworthy. His transmission then passed through his student Abu Hassan Ibn al-Ash‘ath. Qalun's other major route is that of Ahmad ibn Yazid al-Hulwani (d. 250 AH), who travelled twice to Medina to study with Qalun; Ibn al-Jazari brought the two together in al-Nashr. The books that report them differ on points such as the optional extension of the plural mim (‘alayhimū).

Otherwise the route has all of Qalun's features: hamzas fully pronounced, a short or medium separated madd, an alif between two consecutive hamzas, and the wording of Nafi‘, with Maliki yawmi d-dīn without the long alif.

Reciters who have recorded it include Waleed Naehi.