Muhammad ibn al-Abbas al-Yazidi

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Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
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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

Summary

Abu 'Abdallah Muhammad b. al-'Abbas b. Muhammad b. Abi Muhammad al-Yazidi the grammarian — his grandfather Muhammad was Yahya b. al-Mubarak al-'Adawi al-Yazidi; an imam in grammar and adab who transmitted the rarities and speech of the Arabs. Late in life he was summoned to teach al-Muqtadir's sons and attended them a while; after he attached himself to the caliph, one of his companions styled himself after him and asked to read under him — he answered: 'I am otherwise occupied.' ¹

Sources

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

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