Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim Ibn al-Anbari

محمد بن أبي القاسم ابن الأنباري

884 CE · 271 AH – 940 CE · 328 AH

The philologist, grammarian and transmitter of poetry Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Bashshar al-Anbari, raised in a household of learning in al-Anbar, who studied with his father the sciences of hadith, reports and language.

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Roles
Scholar · writer
Counted among
Sunni
Era
Abbasid Fragmentation
Region
Levant & Iraq
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The Early Abbasid Caliphate · Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abu al-Arab al-Tamimi, Muhammad ibn Ahmad · Al-Barbahari, al-Hasan ibn Ali · Al-Istakhri, Abu Sa'id al-Hasan ibn Ahmad · Ibn al-Akhram · Ibn al-A'rabi, Ahmad ibn Muhammad

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Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Abi al-Qasim ibn Bashshar al-Anbari, a philologist, grammarian and transmitter of poetry, who grew up in a family of learning in al-Anbar. He took from his father the sciences of hadith, reports and language. 1

Dates

He was born in 271 AH (884 CE) and died in 328 AH (940 CE), according to the encyclopaedia. 1

People and things also explored

Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Ahmad Abd al-Sattar al-Jawari· Ahmad al-Hamlawi· Tha'lab, Ahmad ibn Yahya· al-Akhfash al-Akbar· Al-Akhfash al-Asghar, Ali ibn Sulayman· Al-Akhfash al-Awsat, Sa'id ibn Mas'ada

Sources

  1. Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO, p.404-405
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