الوتر
كلمة (الوِتر) في اللغة صفة مشبهة باسم الفاعل، ومعناها الفرد،...
The fourteen reciters
(القُرَّاءُ الأربعةَ عَشَرَ)
من موسوعة المصطلحات الإسلامية
المعنى الاصطلاحي
The imams to whom the fourteen recitations of the Qur‘an are ascribed.
الشرح المختصر
"Al-Qurrā’ al-Arba‘ata ‘Ashar" (the fourteen reciters) is the title given to the reciters of the fourteen Qur’anic recitations. These are: 1. The reciters of the seven famous recitations which are transmitted through multiple continuous chains of narration, and they are: Nāfi‘, Ibn Khatheer, Abu ‘Amr, Ibn ‘Āmir, ‘Āsim, Hamzah, Al-Kisā’i. 2. The three reciters added to the seven to complete the ten recitations: Abu Ja‘far, Ya‘qūb, and Khalaf. 3. The rour remaining reciters: Al-Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Muhaysan, Al-Yazeedi, and Al-A‘mash.