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.
ابن أبي ليلى
Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā
Kufa
Teacher of al-Kisāʾī and Ḥamza
Sources for this person
The chain up to the Prophet
No chain up to the Prophet is recorded for this person in the sources read.
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 Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā
1 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- ʿAlī b. Ḥamza al-Kisāʾīالكسائيc. 805
two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā to ʿAlī b. Ḥamza al-Kisāʾī · Two independent sources
al-Kisāʾī also read to Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 4330-4332Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L14790 · agrees (not independent)Entry: ʿarḍ from Muḥammad b. Abī Layla.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L1537 · agreesEntry: also read to Ibn Abī Laylā.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L167-L173 · agreesRijāl of al-Kisāʾī: Ibn Abī Laylā.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Abī Laylā”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/ibn-abi-layla (data of 31 October 2026).