Abu Ali al-Farisi

Abu 'Ali al-Farisi, al-Hasan b. Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Ghaffar the grammarian, author of works at Baghdad; some preferred him over al-Mubarrad, and Ibn Khallikan said he was the imam of his age in the science of grammar. He roamed the lands, dwelt at Aleppo with Sayf al-Dawla b. Hamdan a while — sessions passed between him and Abu'l-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi. ¹

Then he moved to the land of Fars and found favour with 'Adud al-Dawla b. Buwayh, until 'Adud al-Dawla said "I am Abu 'Ali's servant-boy in grammar," and he composed for him the two books al-Idah and al-Takmila. Of his tales in the maydan of Shiraz: an answer on a question of exception failed him, and he returned and set down a discourse on it which he fixed in his book. ¹