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.
عثمان بن عفان
ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
Died 35/656 · 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
two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · The Prophet Muhammad to ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān · 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 3626-3636Checked against
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L128 · 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#L152-L155 · agreesRijāl of Ibn ʿĀmir: al-Mughīra took from ʿUthmān, from the Prophet.
ʿUthmān b. ʿAffānعثمان بن عفان656
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 ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān
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 · ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān to Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī · Two independent sources
al-Sulamī and Zirr also read to ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān and ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3922-3924Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L11550 · agrees (not independent)Entry: ʿarḍ from ʿUthmān.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L457 · agreesEntry: read to ʿUthmān.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L156-L159 · agreesRijāl of ʿĀṣim: al-Sulamī from ʿUthmān.
- al-Mughīra b. Abī Shihāb al-Makhzūmīالمغيرة بن أبي شهاب
two sourcesin Qirāʾāt: the ten canonical readings
read the Qurʾān to · ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān to al-Mughīra b. Abī Shihāb al-Makhzūmī · Two independent sources
al-Mughīra read to ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān; ʿUthmān and Abū l-Dardāʾ read to the Prophet.
Ibn al-Jazarī, al-Nashr fī l-qirāʾāt al-ʿashr, OpenITI 0833IbnJazari.Nashr.Shamela0022642-ara1, lines 3639-3641Checked against
- Ibn al-Jazarī, Ghāyat al-nihāya (same author as al-Nashr; not independent), 0833IbnJazari.GhayatNihaya.Shamela0012040-ara1.completed#L25311 · agrees (not independent)Entry: read to ʿUthmān.
- al-Dhahabī, Maʿrifat al-qurrāʾ al-kibār, 0748Dhahabi.MacrifaQurraKibar.Shamela0008349-ara2#L414 · agreesEntry: read to ʿUthmān.
- al-Dānī, al-Taysīr fī l-qirāʾāt al-sabʿ, 0444AbuCamrDani.TaysirFiQiraatSabc.Shamela0005527-ara1#L152-L155 · agreesRijāl of Ibn ʿĀmir: al-Mughīra from ʿUthmān.
How to cite
Mashraba Reader, Atlas of transmission, “ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān”, https://www.mashraba.org/atlas/figure/uthman (data of 31 October 2026).