Said ibn Harun al-Ashnandani
الأشنانياني، أبو عثمان سعيد بن هارون
870 · 256 AH
A grammarian and philologist from Baghdad, one of the imams of the Arabic language and its transmitters, who lived in Basra, where Ibn Duraid met him.
At a glance
- Roles
- Scholar
- Counted among
- Sunni
- Era
- Abbasid Fragmentation
- 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 Uthman Sa'id ibn Harun al-Ashnandani al-Baghdadi, a grammarian and philologist from Baghdad. The encyclopedia counts him among the imams of the language and its transmission, and among the scholars of literature. He settled in Basra, where Ibn Duraid met him 1.
His death
The encyclopedia gives his death as 256 AH (870 CE) 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
- 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. “Said ibn Harun al-Ashnandani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/said-ibn-harun-al-ashnandani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-16.