Sharh Tayyibat al-Nashr li Ibn al-Jazari
- Author died
- 833 AH
- Editions
- Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah
Sharh Tayyibat al-Nashr is an Islamic scholarly commentary authored by Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Jazari (780 – c. 835 AH / 1378 – c. 1432 CE) on his father's didactic poem on the ten major Quranic readings, Tayyibat al-Nashr fi al-Qira'at al-'Ashr (The Fragrance of Publication in the Ten Readings) .
Author and Base Text
The author of the commentary, Abu Bakr Shihab al-Din Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Jazari, known as Ibn al-Nazim ("the son of the versifier"), was a Quranic reciter born and raised in Damascus, where he died shortly after his father (d. c. 835 AH; another report places his death in 859 AH) . He studied the variant readings under his father, the master of recitation Shams al-Din Ibn al-Jazari (751–833 AH), and assumed teaching duties in Damascus .
The base text, Tayyibat al-Nashr, is an alfiyya (thousand-verse poem) composed in the rajaz meter by Shams al-Din Ibn al-Jazari, who completed its versification in the Roman lands (Rum) in mid-Sha'ban 799 AH as a metrical abridgment of his encyclopedic prose work al-Nashr fi al-Qira'at al-'Ashr .
Subject and Content
The commentary explains the technical terminology, metrical rules, and doctrinal principles contained in Tayyibat al-Nashr . The poem covers the ten major variant readings of the Quran—those of Nafi', Ibn Kathir, Abu 'Amr, Ibn 'Amir, 'Asim, Hamzah, al-Kisa'i, Abu Ja'far, Ya'qub, and Khalaf—incorporating two main transmitters for each reader and two primary transmission lines (turuq) for each transmitter, which diverge into nearly one thousand documented transmission paths . In addition to individual word variants across Quranic surahs, the text elucidates foundational rules of performance (usul), points of articulation (makharij al-huruf), tajwid, and rules of stopping and starting (al-waqf wa-al-ibtida') . In his exposition, the author clarifies specific textual nuances, such as noting that while the poem is designated an alfiyya, its actual count slightly exceeds one thousand verses by roughly ten lines .
Reception and Other Commentaries
The commentary is regarded as an authoritative pedagogical reference for students and scholars specializing in the compilation and verification of the ten readings (jam' al-qira'at) . Tayyibat al-Nashr was also commented upon by several other scholars, most notably Ibn al-Jazari's student Abu al-Qasim Muhammad al-Nuwayri (d. 857 AH), Muhammad al-Munir al-Samannudi (d. 1199 AH), Muhammad Mahfuz al-Tarmasi (d. 1338 AH), and 'Ali Muhammad al-Dabba' (d. 1380 AH) .
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