Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
Overview
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Bashshar al-Anbari, a philologist, grammarian and transmitter of poetry, who grew up in a family of learning in al-Anbar. He took from his father the sciences of hadith, reports and language. 1
Dates
He was born in 271 AH (884 CE) and died in 328 AH (940 CE), according to the encyclopaedia. 1
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Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO , p.404-405
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islam.museum contributors. “Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim Ibn al-Anbari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/muhammad-ibn-abi-al-qasim-ibn-al-anbari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.