Abu Bakr Shu‘bah Ibn ‘Ayyash Ibn Salim al-Asadi al-Kufi an-Nahshali (Arabic: أبو بكر شعبة بن عياش بن سالم الأسدي الكوفي النهشلي, 95-193 AH/713-808 CE),[1][2][3] more commonly known as Shu'bah, is a significant figure in the history of Qur'an readings as well as a hadith narrator.
[8] He was a Mawla (freedman) of Wasl ibn Hayyan al-Ahdab al-Asadi, and used to reside in Kufa.
Abu Bakr spend forty years completing the Quran every day and night.
He stopped teaching the Quran twenty years before his death, but continued narrating hadith.
[12] Shady Nasser quotes ad-Dhahabi as bringing a report that Shu'bah rejected the reading of his contemporary Hamzah az-Zaiyyat as bid'ah.
[13][14] Harun al-Rashid summoned Abu Bakr ibn Ayyash from Kufa.
Whoever claims that the Qur'an is created is a disbeliever, a heretic, and an enemy of Allah in our view.