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Al-Asl Institute · The Mutūn Collection

المُتُون

The Mutūn Collection
The foundational poems of Qurʾanic recitation and the seven readings — each presented chapter by chapter, verse by verse, with its meaning.
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3 mutūnTajwīd & Qirāʾāt4th–9th century AH

A matn (plural mutūn) is a concise didactic poem that scholars composed so that the essentials of a science could be carried in the heart and recited from memory. These three poems form a single path through the science of recitation — from its first foundations, to its complete rules, to the seven canonical readings.

KhāqāniyyahJazariyyahShāṭibiyyah
Foundations · the rules of tajwīd · the seven readings
The Collection

Three Texts, One Path

Begin where you are. Each text opens onto the next.

القَصِيدَةُ الخَاقَانِيَّة
Al-Qaṣīda al-Khāqāniyyah
The Khāqāniyyah
Abū Muzāḥim al-Khāqānī · d. 325 AH / 937 CE
Tajwīd51 versesRāʾiyyah
The earliest standalone work on Qurʾanic recitation — a rāʾiyyah pairing the manners of the reciter with the foundations of beautiful recitation.
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المُقَدِّمَةُ الجَزَرِيَّة
Al-Muqaddimah al-Jazariyyah
The Jazariyyah
Imām Ibn al-Jazarī · d. 833 AH / 1429 CE
Tajwīd109 versesRajaz
The matn on which the teaching of tajwīd has rested for six centuries — from articulation points and letter characteristics to madd, waqf and orthography.
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حِرْزُ الأَمَانِي
Ḥirz al-Amānī wa-Wajh al-Tahānī
The Shāṭibiyyah
Imām al-Qāsim al-Shāṭibī · d. 590 AH / 1194 CE
Qirāʾāt1173 versesLāmiyyah
Imām al-Shāṭibī’s versification of al-Dānī’s al-Taysīr — the gateway to the science of qirāʾāt, naming every reciter and transmitter through an ingenious system of letter-symbols.
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أَلَمْ تَرَ كَيْفَ ضَرَبَ ٱللَّهُ مَثَلًا كَلِمَةً طَيِّبَةً كَشَجَرَةٍ طَيِّبَةٍ أَصْلُهَا ثَابِتٌ وَفَرْعُهَا فِى ٱلسَّمَآءِ
“Do you not see how Allah compares a good word to a good tree? Its root is firm and its branches reach the sky.”
Sūrat Ibrāhīm · 14 : 24
Al-Aslالأَصْل, “the root.” A good word, firmly rooted and flourishing upward — the spirit in which these mutūn of Qurʾanic recitation are offered.