Ibn Kathir al-Makki

Al-Makki was born in Mecca and was one of the Tabi‘un.^[4] His family was of Iranian origin and were immigrants to Yemen.^[5] Al-Makki was a mawla ("freedman") of Amr ibn Alkama al-Kinani.^[5]

Al-Makki met the companions of Prophet Muhammad Anas ibn Malik and Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr,^[4] and he learned his recitation method from a student of Prophet Muhammad's companion Abd Allah ibn Abbas who in turn learned from Ubay ibn Ka'b and Zayd ibn Thabit who both learned directly from Prophet Muhammad.^[4] Al-Shafi‘i, the namesake of one of the four primary schools of thought in Sunni Islam, preferred to recite the Qur'an according to al-Makki's method.^[4]

He died in the year 737CE.^[3][6] The two primary transmitters of his method of recitation, Al-Bazzi and Qunbul,^[2][7] were Persian and Meccan respectively.