Muhammad Qunbul transmitted the reading of Ibn Kathir al-Makki, recorded here with Mecca as its reading centre, and stands beside al-Bazzi's transmission as the second of the two riwayat carrying the Meccan reading, one of the seven, forward.
Qunbul's transmission recites the basmala between suras and, like al-Bazzi's line of the same reading, includes the takbir from Surah al-Duha through to the end of the text, a feature that marks the Meccan reading among the seven. It softens the second of two adjacent hamzas, does not apply imala anywhere, and holds detached vowel lengthening to two counts against four or five at connected junctures. The closing mim of plural pronouns is always sounded with a connecting vowel, no light pause is observed, and verse numbering follows the Meccan count shared with al-Bazzi's transmission.
The two transmitters of Ibn Kathir's reading, al-Bazzi and Qunbul, converge on nearly every feature recorded here, sharing the distinctive takbir practice that sets the Meccan reading apart from the other six among the seven; the shared feature reflects a reading transmitted continuously within one city's community of reciters rather than carried across the wider distances that separated, for instance, the two riwayat of Abu Amr's Basran reading from each other. Qunbul's transmission carries the standing of the seven, among the readings Ibn Mujahid selected in the tenth century.