Abū Jaʿfar Yazīd b. al-Qaʿqāʿ (d. 130/748), was one of the tābiʿūn (the generation after the Companions of the Prophet), and one of the ‘Ten Readers’ (al-qurrāʾ al-ʿashara), deemed authoritative in the science of qirāʾa (reading/recitation). According to unidentified reports in the later sources, he was also referred to as Jundab b. Fīrūz and Fīrūz b. al-Qaʿqāʿ (Ibn Khallikān, 6/274; al-Mizzī, 21/173). He was manumitted by ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAyyāsh b. Abī Rabīʿa al-Makhzūmī (Ibn Saʿd, 151; Khalīfa, al-Ṭabaqāt, 2/654), and seems to have been of Arab origin.

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