Every hafiz in this country recited to a teacher who recited to a teacher, all the way back to Rasulullah ﷺ. Mawlana Qari Saleem Gaibie has given his life to guarding that chain and to mapping it.
He memorised the Quran at Darul Uloom Zakariyya, then sat for years with Qari Ayyub Ishaq through the seven and the ten qira'at. He holds ijazat from teachers in South Africa, Egypt, Syria, Pakistan and Nigeria, has taught tajwid, qira'at and the sciences of the Quran at Darul Uloom al-Arabiyyah al-Islamiyyah in the Strand for more than two decades, leads al-Tanzil Institute of Quranic Sciences, teaches full time at the Imam Kurani Institute for Islamic Studies, and wrote the first English commentaries on the core texts of the science.
In this episode: how an ijazah is really earned, why almost every chain of the Quran today passes through Ibn al-Jazari, what makes a chain high, a doubtful link that spread through recent ijazahs, and the advice Mawlana Taha Karaan, rahimahullah, gave him: "Did you find your Sakhawi already?" He closes with Ayat al-Kursi.
00:00 28 links to the Prophet ﷺ
00:49 Welcome to ROOTED
02:38 A grandmother who loved the Quran
03:23 First khatm with Imam Naeim Moerat
08:40 Hifz at Darul Uloom Zakariyya
11:20 Hearing Qari Ayyub recite the qira'at
13:12 Years with Qari Ayyub Ishaq
17:50 How students learn at al-Tanzil
26:15 Why an ijazah is only the beginning
27:27 The texts: from the Tuhfah to Salsabil al-Shafi
29:18 The three after the seven
33:05 The four shadhdh readings
38:01 What it takes to earn an ijazah
43:12 Studied here, at home
47:22 Why every chain passes through Ibn al-Jazari
51:47 What makes a chain high
55:08 A doubtful link: Shaykh Uthman Murad
58:17 The early reciters of the Cape
1:04:47 Founding al-Tanzil
1:08:31 The first English commentaries
1:15:50 Shaykh al-Husari
1:17:48 Mawlana Taha Karaan and "find your Sakhawi"
1:25:24 Advice for a student starting today
1:29:36 His books
1:33:25 A dua for his students
1:35:02 Ayat al-Kursi
1:36:22 Closing
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