Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr
أبو الأسود الدؤلي ظالم بن عمرو
688 CE · 69 AH
A philologist and transmitter credited with the vowel-pointing of the Qur'an and the founding of Arabic grammar. His lineage goes back to al-Du'al ibn Bakr ibn Kinana.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Umayyad Period
- Region
- Levant & Iraq
- Review
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Life in time
LinguisticsScripture and its sciences
Place in the story
- ScholarTradition
Roles are dated and sourced; the museum describes the act and attributes the judgement.
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People and things also explored
Al-Ansari al-Saraqusti, Isma'il ibn Khalaf· Ibn Abi al-Ahwas, al-Husayn ibn Abd al-Aziz· Command, prohibition and capacity· Bid'a (religious innovation)· Sacred hadith (hadith qudsi)· Seeking knowledge· Connectedness of the isnad and proven hearing· The Qur'an as the speech of God (in the Tahawi creed)
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
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islam.museum contributors. “Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/abu-al-aswad-al-duali/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-13.