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Atlas

Chains of transmission from the Prophet, read as the sources give them.
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 كثير المكي

Ibn Kathīr al-Makkī

Died 120 AH · born 45 AH · Mecca

Canonical reader (one of the ten)

Sources for this person

Suggest a correction

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 3, the best-sourced: Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings. Tap a rule to read its basis, sources and checks.

  1. Ubayy b. Kaʿbأبي بن كعب654
  2. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbāsعبد الله بن عباس687
  3. Ibn Kathīr al-Makkīابن كثير المكيc. 738
Other routes (2)

Route 2 of 3: Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings

  1. Zayd b. Thābitزيد بن ثابت665
  2. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbāsعبد الله بن عباس687
  3. Ibn Kathīr al-Makkīابن كثير المكيc. 738

Route 3 of 3: Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings

  1. Ubayy b. Kaʿbأبي بن كعب654
  2. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Sāʾib al-Makhzūmīعبد الله بن السائب689
  3. Ibn Kathīr al-Makkīابن كثير المكيc. 738
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 Ibn Kathīr al-Makkī

3 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.

How to cite

Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “Ibn Kathīr al-Makkī”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/ibn-kathir (data of 31 October 2026).