Said ibn Aws Abu Zayd al-Ansari
سعيد بن أوس أبو زيد الأنصاري
740 CE · 122 AH – 830 CE · 215 AH
The philologist, grammarian and transmitter Abu Zayd Said ibn Aws ibn Thabit al-Ansari, who studied language, grammar, recitation and hadith with the scholars of his age and wrote works on language.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar · writer
- 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.
Overview
Abu Zayd Sa'id ibn Aws ibn Thabit al-Ansari al-Khazraji, a philologist, grammarian and transmitter. He took language, grammar, recitation and hadith from the scholars of his age, and he wrote works on language 1.
Dates
He was born around 122 AH (740 CE) and died around 215 AH (830 CE). The encyclopedia notes that the sources differ on the year of his birth. Both dates need an additional source 1.
Connections
People and things also explored
The Ansar· Hassan ibn Thabit· Muhammad· Medina· Hassan ibn Thabit's poem 'Those are my people, if you ask, noble'· Abd al-Qadir al-Baghdadi· Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali, Zalim ibn Amr· Ahmad Abd al-Sattar al-Jawari
Sources
- Mawsu'at A'lam al-Ulama' wa-l-Adaba' al-Arab wa-l-Muslimin — Dar al-Jil / ALECSO
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “Said ibn Aws Abu Zayd al-Ansari”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/said-ibn-aws-abu-zayd-al-ansari/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.