Yunus ibn Habib the Grammarian
يونس بن حبيب النحوي
Yunus ibn Habib, Basra's grammarian; 'I lived when the houses of Ziyad and Ibn Amir stood estranged over the Ubulla canal Ziyad completed without him'.
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- The Umayyad Period · The Early Abbasid Caliphate
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Yunus ibn Habib al-Nahwi al-Basri, who knew best the inflections of grammar. His circle in Basra was frequented by students of learning and eloquent Bedouins. He passed a hundred years and died in the year 183 AH 1.
It is reported of him that he witnessed an estrangement between the family of Ziyad and the family of Ibn Amir because of the river of al-Ubulla, which Ziyad completed 2.
Sources
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.111-112
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
- Wafayat al-A'yan wa-Anba' Abna' al-Zaman — Ibn Khallikan
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