By Qāri Izhār Ahmad Thānawi [1] Translation and footnotes by Faraz Abdul Moid Shams al-Dīn Abū ‘l-Khayr Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Ali al-Jazarī was born in Damascus on the 25th of Ramadan, 751 AH (corresponding to 1350 CE). By the of age 15 or 16, he had not only memorized the Qur’an but had also committed to memory the famous book of Shafi’ī law al-Tanbīh, plus two books on qirā’ah: the Shātibiyyah and al-Taysīr [2]. His teachers included Taqi al-Dīn al-Baghdādi, Ibn al-Husayn al-Hanafi, Shaykh Ibn al-Labbān, and others. In his studies in law, he benefited from Jamāl…