What an ijazah is — the living chain
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An ijazah in recitation is a teacher's formal testimony that a student has recited the whole Quran to them correctly — joined to the teacher's own certified chain, person to person, back to the Prophet ﷺ. It is not a course completion badge; it is admission into a living chain of mouths and ears. The sanad is the pedigree; the recitation before a teacher is the exam.