al-Dani

Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī[1] (981–1053), called Ibn al-Ṣayrafī,[2] was a Mālikī lawyer, muḥaddith (traditionist) and Qurʾānic muqriʾ (reciter) from al-Andalus.

[5][7] His return coincided with the start of the Berber uprising and fitna (civil war) that would culminate in the collapse of the Umayyad dynasty.

[10] He was given a splendid funeral procession, with Sultan ʿAlī ibn Mujāhid Iqbāl al-Dawla [es] leading the cortège through the crowds.

[5][7] The funeral prayers were recited by ʿAbd Allāh ibn Khumays al-Anṣārī and he was buried at the Bāb Indāra.

[5] Al-Dānī's most influential work was the Kitāb al-Taysīr fī al-qirāʾāt al-sabʿa, a manual on the seven readings of the Qurʾān.

Al-Shāṭibī also versified al-Dānī's Kitāb al-Muqniʿ fī maʿrifat rasm maṣāḥif al-amṣār, a treatise on Qurʾānic orthography.

[5] Al-Dānī wrote the Kitāb al-Naqṭ as an addendum to the al-Muqniʿ summarizing Arabic diacritics as used in the Qurʾān.