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.
عمر بن الخطاب
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
Died 23/644 · Medina
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 1, the best-sourced: Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings. Tap a rule to read its basis, sources and checks.
- 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 الخطاب644
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 ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb
2 recorded, each with the chain set it belongs to.
- Abū l-ʿĀliya Rufayʿ b. Mihrān al-Riyāḥīأبو العالية الرياحي709
two 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.
- ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Sāʾib al-Makhzūmīعبد الله بن السائب689
the community's own accountin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readingssources differ
read the Qurʾān to · ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Sāʾib al-Makhzūmī · The community's own account
ʿAbd Allāh b. al-Sāʾib read to Ubayy b. Kaʿb and ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3049-3052Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L11740 · differs (not independent)Entry mentions narrating from ʿUmar.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L393 · differsEntry: read to Ubayy; narrated (rawā) from ʿUmar, not read to him.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L141-L144 · silentPassage does not state this link.
Where the sources differ, side by side. We do not rule between them.
- ʿAbdallāh b. al-Sāʾib read the Qurʾān to Ubayy; al-Dhahabī says he only narrated (rawā) from ʿUmar.Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L11740al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L393
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/umar (data of 31 October 2026).