Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · Poet
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
- Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it
Life in time
Place in the story
- TransmitterTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Khalaf ibn Hayyan ibn Mihraz al-Ahmar, a transmitter and philologist from Basra, known for his memorisation and transmission of Arabic poetry. 1
Life
He was born around 115 AH (733 CE) and died in 180 AH (796 CE). 1
What is not stated here
The data do not record his teachers or his pupils. It needs an additional source.
People and things also explored
God teaches Adam the names· Amharic· Arabic· Bengali· Bosnian· Hausa· Indonesian· Kurdish
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p. 338-339
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Khalaf al-Ahmar”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/khalaf-al-ahmar/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.