Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada
الأخفش الأوسط سعيد بن مسعدة
830 CE · 215 AH
A Basran grammarian of Khwarazmian origin and a pupil of Sibawayh. He is known as al-Awsat to distinguish him from other grammarians named al-Akhfash.
Depth
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- The Early Abbasid Caliphate
- 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.
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People and things also explored
Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi· Sidi ibn al-Mukhtar al-Abyiri
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. “Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/al-akhfash-al-awsat-said/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.