... The title of this thesis is ( Al- Iedah fil kraat wa iktiyar Abi Aubaied wa Abi Hatem). Its writer is (Mr. Ahmed bin Abi Oumar Al- Andarabi Al- Nesaburi Al- Qurasani. The books has not furnished his biography and has reproduced quotations from his book ( Al- Iedah). His death might be after the year of 500.A.H. as Ibn - Al jazari said. Ibn - Al Jazari was the only writer who mentioned (Ahmed Al-Andarabi) in his books on the biographies of men.

... The book of al- Idah consists of two part. The first part consists of 53 chapters which engage the greatest part of the book and which deals with various subjects on the sciences of the Quran and its recitations such as the vitures of the Quaran and how it descended from haven and how it was received, written and collected and its pronunciations, meanings, its parts, and divisions and its arranging and its chapters weather Meccans or Medinya and the numbers of its texts. As well as its partitions, parsing, learning and the kinds of its recitations and he errors in it recitations, and the most outstanding rectors and their references and tailors and what associate with its recitation concerning taking refuge (in istithah), and Basmalah (Saying “ In the name of Good”, and saying “ Amin” and saying “ Good is the Gratest “ and prostration, etc ... in addition to the rules of recitations, elision, start, stoppage, literature productions, and so on, and mentioning the outmoding of the letters and heir features and kinds as well as the explanation of the script of the holy Koran and the differences of the scripts in various countries.

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