Hisham ibn Mu'awiya al-Darir

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Era: The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Abd al-Azim al-Hasani · Abd Allah ibn Ayyub al-Taymi · Abu al-Ayna · Abu Al Hudhayl Al Allaf · Abu Dawud al-Sijistani

Overview

Abu 'Abd Allah Hisham b. Mu'awiya al-Darir, the Kufan grammarian (d. 209); companion of al-Kisa'i from whom he took much grammar, with sayings ascribed to him and works including al-Hudud, al-Mukhtasar and al-Qiyas; when Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Mus'ab erred in a word before al-Ma'mun he took his grammar from this very Hisham ¹.

Sources

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

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