Depth
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
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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 Harun al-Ashnandani”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/said-ibn-harun-al-ashnandani/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-27.