Al-Farra'
Al-Farra' | |
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الفراء | |
| Title | Amīr al-Muʾminīn fī al-Nahw (lit. ''The Commander of the Faithful in Grammar'') |
| Personal life | |
| Born | 144 AH / 761-762 CE Kufa, Iraq, Abbasid Caliphate |
| Died | 207 AH / 822-823 CE (aged 60-62) |
| Era | Abbasid Era |
| Region | Iraq |
| Main interest(s) | |
| Known for | Traditionally founder and head of the grammatical school of al-Kūfa |
| Relatives | Muhammad al-Shaybani (Maternal cousin) |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Teachers | Qays ibn al-Rabīʿ, Mandil ibn ʿAlī, Abū Bakr ibn ʿAyyāsh, al-Kisāʾī, and Sufyān ibn ʿUyayna, Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb al-Baṣrī |
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| Arabic name | |
| Personal (Ism) | Yaḥyā يحيى |
| Patronymic (Nasab) | ibn Ziyād ibn ʿAbdullāh ibn Manṣūr ابن زياد ابن عبد الله ابن منصور |
| Teknonymic (Kunya) | Abū Zakarīyā’ أبو زكريا |
| Toponymic (Nisba) | al-Daylamī al-Farrā’ al-Asadī الديْلَمي الفَرّاء الأسدي |
Al-Farrāʼ (الفراء), he was Abū Zakarīyāʼ Yaḥyā ibn Ziyād ibn ʽAbd Allāh ibn Manṣūr al-Daylamī al-Farrāʼ (أبو زكريا يحيى بن زياد بن عبد الله بن منصور الدَّيْلميّ الفراء), was a Daylamite scholar and the principal pupil of al-Kisā’ī (الكساءى). He is the most brilliant of the Kūfan scholars. Muḥammad ibn Al-Jahm quotes Ibn al-Quṭrub that it was al-Farrā’s melodic eloquence and knowledge of the pure spoken Arabic of the Bedouins and their expressions that won him special favour at the court of Hārūn al-Rashīd. He died on the way to Mecca, aged about sixty, or sixty-seven, in 822 (207 AH).