PERANAN IBNU MUJAHID DALAM TERBENTUKNYA QIRĀ’AT SAB’AH

This paper discusses about the role of Ibn Mujahid and how hiseffortto format of the qirā‘ah sab'ah. Understanding, or at least knowing qirā'ah is an urgent matter, not only because qirā'ah is a scientific discipline of its own, but also because this science allows people who understand it to be able to explain some related scholarship, such as fiqh, law and interpretation itself. Based on this then the concepts of qirā‘ah sab'ah, qirā‘ah ‘asyr, and arba’ah‘ asyr emerge. Among the concepts above, which are widely known by the public are qirā‘ah sab’ah, seven variations of reading (al-Qirā‘ah al-Sab’ah). What a great attention of Ibn Mujahid to the science of qirā'at has led him to compose books that make it easy for the prosecutors to study different kinds of qirā'at in the Qur'an. The book what is meantion is al-Sab'ah fî al-Qirā’ah.