Sirafi's commentary on Sibawayh's Kitab

Abu Saʿid al-Sirafi's commentary on Sibawayh's book. The editor of the Zayn edition relies on it to clarify the difficult passages of the book, and quotes passages from it with reference to their places ².

Al-Sirafi draws attention to the phenomenon of repetition in the book and to the way a single subject is divided across it. His remarks on Sibawayh's method and the order of its chapters continued to be cited into later times ¹.