Atlas
About this atlas
The atlas holds the chains of transmission from the Prophet as the standard references and the classical sources record them: the Sufi orders, the chains of Qurʾān recitation, the teachers of the schools of law and ḥadīth, and the lines of the Prophet's family, with the places they spread and the living houses and teachers who carry them today. Every link shows its sources; where they differ, both readings are shown, and we do not rule on any community's claims. Ibn ʿArabī's own life, teachers and readers are on their own page.
أبو العالية الرياحي
Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī
Died 90/709 (sources differ) · Basra
Teacher of Abū ʿAmr and al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
Dates are given where the sources give them. Years are CE; the Hijri year is in each name's detail.
Route 1 of 2, the best-sourced: Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings. Tap a rule to read its basis, sources and checks.
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · The Prophet Muhammad to Ubayy b. Kaʿb · Two independent sources
Ibn al-Jazarī: the Companion read the Qurʾān to the Messenger of God (the isnād ends here in each chain).
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 2836-2840Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L789 · agrees (not independent)Entry: he read the Qurʾān to the Prophet.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L193 · agreesEntry: he read the Qurʾān to the Prophet.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L136-L140 · agreesRijāl of Nāfiʿ: chain ends Ubayy, then the Prophet.
Ubayy b. Kaʿbأبي بن كعب654two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · Ubayy b. Kaʿb to Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī · Two independent sources
Abū l-ʿĀliya read to Ubayy b. Kaʿb (with ʿUmar, Zayd and Ibn ʿAbbās).
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3367-3369Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L7992 · agrees (not independent)Entry: took ʿarḍ from Ubayy, Zayd and Ibn ʿAbbās.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L563 · agreesEntry (citing al-Dānī): ʿarḍ from Ubayy, Zayd and Ibn ʿAbbās.
Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥīأبو العالية الرياحي709
Other routes (1)
Route 2 of 2: Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
the community's own accountin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · The Prophet Muhammad to ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb · The community's own account
Ibn al-Jazarī: the Companion read the Qurʾān to the Messenger of God (the isnād ends here in each chain).
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 2836-2840Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L16232 · silent (not independent)Entry gives narrations from ʿUmar and the report that Abū l-ʿĀliya read to him; no statement that he read to the Prophet.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L128 · silentEntry does not state this link.
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭābعمر بن الخطاب644two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī · Two independent sources
Abū l-ʿĀliya read to ʿUmar, Ubayy, Zayd b. Thābit and Ibn ʿAbbās.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3367-3369Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L7992 · agrees (not independent)Entry: "sound" report that he read to ʿUmar.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L563 · agreesEntry: "it is said" he read to ʿUmar; Dhahabī lists Ubayy, Zayd, Ibn ʿAbbās as ʿarḍ teachers.
Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥīأبو العالية الرياحي709
How to read the marks
- Two sources: a solid rule. Two independent references give the same link.
- One source: a lighter rule, so labelled.
- The community's own account: a dotted rule. The order tells it; we have not yet read it against a reference source.
- A gap in the rule: the sources omit names between the two. The label says which.
- The sources differ: tap the ≠ to read each reading with its source.
- A ring: a spiritual link, without a meeting (uwaysī).
Who received from Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ al-Baṣrīأبو عمرو بن العلاءc. 771
one sourcein Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readingssources differ
read the Qurʾān to · Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī to Abū ʿAmr b. al-ʿAlāʾ al-Baṣrī · One source
Abū ʿAmr read to Abū l-ʿĀliya al-Riyāḥī (one of a long list of his teachers).
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3360-3364Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L8113 · agrees (not independent)Entry: lists him among teachers "on the sound view" (ʿalā l-ṣaḥīḥ).
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L1193 · differsEntry: it is said he read to Abū l-ʿĀliya, but this is not established.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L145-L151 · silentPassage does not state this link.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- Whether Abū ʿAmr read to Abū l-ʿĀliya: Ghāyat accepts it 'on the sound view'; al-Dhahabī says it is not established though he was alive for 20+ years of Abū l-ʿĀliya's life; al-Dānī's list of Abū ʿAmr's teachers omits him.Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L8113al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L1193al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L145-L151
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/abu-l-aliya (data of 31 October 2026).