Ibn Alawiyya al-Hamadhani

The master Abu 'Abdallah al-Husayn ibn Ahmad al-Hamdani, grammarian and philologist known as Ibn 'Alawiyya, author and shaykh of the people of Aleppo; he took from Ibn Mujahid, Abu Bakr Ibn al-Anbari and Abu 'Umar al-Zahid; he left Baghdad for Aleppo and settled and died there, honoured by the Hamdanids; he was admitted to Sayf al-Dawla, and when told to sit he composed an 'excellence' epistle for Sayf al-Dawla — and he has recorded encounters with al-Mutanabbi in Sayf al-Dawla's majlis. ¹