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Abu Umar al-Mutarriz

أبو عمر المطرز الزاهد

778 CE · 161 AH – 956 CE · 345 AH

Abu Umar al-Mutarriz (161–345) — Tha'lab's companion and the most prolific transmitter of gharib al-lugha; author of Fa'it al-Fasih and dozens of lexical works; reputed to have dictated 30,000 folios of language from memory, which earned him both fame and suspicion 1.

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Abbasid Fragmentation
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era · The Umayyad Period Contemporaries: Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali · Ibn Abi Usama, al-Harith ibn Muhammad · أبو جعفر الترمذي · Al-Jawzajani, Ibrahim ibn Ya'qub · al-Jahiz

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  1. Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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