Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Sikut

Ya'qub ibn Ishaq ibn al-Sikkit, Abu Yusuf, a grammarian and lexicographer and the author of the book "Islah al-Mantiq", was one of the imams of grammar and lexicography in Baghdad. He was a man of merit and piety, and his transmission was trusted. He tutored the sons of Ja'far al-Mutawakkil. ¹

Al-Farra' was asked about al-Sikkit's lineage, and he said: he is Khuzi, from the villages of Dawraq in the districts of Ahwaz. His father, Ishaq, known as al-Sikkit, taught the children of common people in the Qantara quarter of Madinat al-Salam (Baghdad), until Ya'qub needed to earn a living and began to study grammar. Ya'qub related of his father that he performed the hajj, circled the Ka'ba and walked between Safa and Marwa, and asked God to teach his son grammar, and so he learned grammar. ¹

He heard from Abu Amr al-Shaybani. Abu Ikrima al-Dabbi, Abu Sa'id al-Sukkari, Maymun ibn Harun al-Katib, Abdallah ibn Muhammad ibn Rustam and Ahmad ibn Faraj al-Muqri transmitted from him. ¹