Abu Musa al-Ash'ari, The beautiful reciter

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Abu Musa al-Ash'ariأبو موسى الأشعري

Approximate dateBasra

A Yemeni whose recitation was said to have the sweetness of the family of Dawud.

Abu Musa came from Yemen and reached the Prophet ﷺ at Khaybar with the emigrants from Abyssinia. The Prophet ﷺ, hearing him recite at night, said he had been given a flute of the family of Dawud. Umar made him governor of Basra, where he taught the Quran. He was later one of the two arbiters after Siffin.

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