Hisham ibn al-Kalbi
هشام بن الكلبي
The genealogist Ibn al-Kalbi — dead in 204, the year of al-Shafi'i's death 1.
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Hisham ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sa'ib al-Kalbi, a genealogist, who died in 204 AH, the year of al-Shafi'i's death according to al-Mas'udi. 2
His account of the origin of script
Ibn al-Nadim reports from him that the first to devise the Arabic script were people of the ancient Arab tribes who settled among Adnan ibn Udd, and that he named them: Abu Jad, Hawwaz, Hutti, Kalamun, Sa'fas and Qurashat. They wrote the script after their names. 3
An additional source is needed: the year of death is given by a single source in this data.
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- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p. 418
- Muruj al-Dhahab — al-Masʼudi, p.418
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.9-10
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