Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Zayd al-Shaybani al-Kufi, known as Tha'lab, a Kufan philologist and grammarian. He was a client of the Banu Shayban. Many sayings on grammar are transmitted from him. 1
The source says he was born in 200 AH (815 CE) and died in 291 AH (903 CE). Both dates come from one source and need a second. 1
His book Ikhtilaf al-Nuhat is attributed to him. 2
Connections
- Authored
- Ikhtilaf al-Nuhat
People and things also explored
Ikhtilaf al-Nuhat· God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
- Kashf al-Zunun an Asami al-Kutub wa'l-Funun — Hajji Khalifa (Furqan ed.)
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/ahmad-ibn-yahya-tha-lab/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.