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Abu Ali al-Hatimi

أبو علي الحاتمي

c. 999 CE · c. 390 AH

The Baghdadi philologist-secretary al-Hatimi, pupil of Abu 'Umar al-Zahid and teacher of al-Tanukhi; his Risala Hatimiyya exposes al-Mutanabbi's plagiarisms, and when his shaykh visited him sick and found him gone to the bathhouse he chalked on his door 'strangest of things — an invalid visited who cannot be found' 1.

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Roles
Scholar · writer
Era
The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Levant & Iraq
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Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Ghani ibn Sa'id al-Azdi · Abd al-Jabbar al-Hamadhani · Abd al-Wahhab ibn Ali al-Baghdadi · Abd Allah ibn Zaydun · Amid al-Juyush Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Ustadh Hurmuz

Overview

Abu Ali Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn al-Muzaffar al-Hatimi al-Baghdadi, a philologist and writer. He took literature from Abu Umar al-Zahid, the client of Tha'lab, and a group took from him, among them the judge al-Tanukhi. 1

He wrote the "Hatimiyya Epistle", explaining what passed between him and al-Mutanabbi about the plagiarisms and the faults of his verse. "Shadharat" gives his death as about 390 AH. 1

Sources

  1. Shadharat al-Dhahab — Ibn al-Imad al-Hanbali , p. 137
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