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At a glance

Roles: Poet · philologist
Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Life in time

The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Ibn Abi Dawud al-Sijistani · Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Abu'l-Sa'ib 'Utba al-Hamadhani · Abu Awana, Ya'qub ibn Ishaq · Abu Bakr al-Naysaburi Abd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn Ziyad

Overview

Abu Musa Sulayman b. Muhammad b. Ahmad, the Baghdadi grammarian known as al-Hamidh; he was only nicknamed "the Sour" because he had a fierce temper ¹.

Sources

Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan

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islam.museum contributors. “Abu Musa al-Hamidh”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-hamidh/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-22.

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