FULL NAME: Aboo al Waleed al-Salamee Hishaam bin ‘Ammaar bin Naasir bin Maysarah (d. 245).

1. He was a learned scholar who made an immense contribution not only in the qir’aah but also in the narration of Hadeeth and Fatwaa.
2. He was an imam of Damascus and the khateeb (lecturer) and their recitor.
3. He was born in the year 153 Al-Hijarah, and died 245 Al-Hijarah.
4. He mastered this way of reading from Ibn ‘Aamir through an imam who read to and was approved in it from Imam Ibn ‘Aamir.