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.
عبد الله بن مسعود
ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd
Died 32/652-53 · Kufa
Companion of the Prophet, named in Ibn al-Jazarī's isnād to the Prophet
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 ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd · 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 3917-3922Checked against
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L228 · agreesListed among the first ṭabaqa, those who read to the Messenger of God.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L156-L159 · agreesRijāl of ʿĀṣim/Ḥamza: Ibn Masʿūd, from the Prophet.
ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūdعبد الله بن مسعود652
Other routes (1)
Route 2 of 2: Schools of law and ḥadīth
- The Prophet Muhammadمحمد632
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
companionship (ṣuḥba) · The Prophet Muhammad to ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd · Two independent sources
Companion of the Prophet (Siyar entry, heading read only).
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 32384)Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L102645 · agreesIbn Masʿūd’s entry opens his sources with the Prophet.
- al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, Shamela0010906 #L32388 · agreesSiyar: early convert and Badr veteran, i.e. a Companion of the Prophet.
ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūdعبد الله بن مسعود652
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 ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd
2 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamīأبو عبد الرحمن السلمي692
two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd to Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī · Two independent sources
The three read to ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3921-3923Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L11550 · agrees (not independent)Entry: he took ʿarḍ from ʿUthmān, ʿAlī, Ibn Masʿūd, Zayd and Ubayy.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L457 · agreesEntry: read to ʿUthmān, ʿAlī and Ibn Masʿūd.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L156-L159 · agreesRijāl of ʿĀṣim: al-Sulamī from Ibn Masʿūd among others.
- ʿAlqama b. Qays al-Nakhaʿīعلقمة بن قيس682
two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd to ʿAlqama b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī · Two independent sources
ʿAlqama read to ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 4165-4167Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L13815 · agrees (not independent)Entry: ʿarḍ from Ibn Masʿūd.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L439 · agreesEntry: read to Ibn Masʿūd.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L160-L166 · agreesRijāl of Ḥamza: Yaḥyā's teachers took from Ibn Masʿūd.
two sourcesin Schools of law and ḥadīth
studied with · ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd to ʿAlqama b. Qays al-Nakhaʿī · Two independent sources
Siyar: ʿAlqama went to Kufa and kept close company with Ibn Masʿūd.
al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, entry ʿAlqama b. Qays (OpenITI Shamela0010906, line 55330)Checked against
- al-Mizzī, Tahdhīb al-kamāl, Shamela0003722 #L133258 · agreesʿAlqama’s entry lists Ibn Masʿūd among those he narrated from, and Ibn Masʿūd’s companions in Kufa include ʿAlqama.
- al-Dhahabī, Siyar aʿlām al-nubalāʾ, Shamela0010906 #L32388 · agreesIbn Masʿūd entry: early convert, fought at Badr; Kufan circle context (heading and opening read).
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿAbd Allāh b. Masʿūd”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/ibn-masud (data of 31 October 2026).