8th-century Qur'anic Scholar and Arab linguist
Abu Amr bin al-Ala
Born c. 70 AH (689/690CE) Died 154 AH (770/771CE) Main interest(s) Arabic , Quran Religion Islam
Abu ʻAmr bin al-ʻAlāʼ al-Basri (Arabic : أبو عمرو بن العلاء ; (689/90-770/71; c.70-154 AH[ 1] Qur'an reciter of Basra, Iraq and an Arab linguist .[ 1]
He was born in Mecca .[ 2] Banu Tamim ,[ 3] chain of narration for the Qur'an .[ 4] Basran philology school of Arabic grammar .[ 5] Nafi‘ al-Madani and Ibn Kathir al-Makki .[ 6] Qur'an reading in his hometown of Mecca and in Basra, he also travelled to learn more about the practice in the Kufan school and in Medina .[ 6]
Ibn al-ʻAlāʼ studied under Ibn Abi Ishaq and among his own pupils were Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi ,[ 7] [ 8] Yunus ibn Habib ,[ 1] [ 9] Al-Asma'i [ 5] Harun ibn Musa .[ 10] [ 4] Abu ʿUbaidah , who called Ibn al-ʻAlāʼ the most learned of all men in philology , grammar, Arabic poetry and the Qur'an.[ 11] Sibawayhi , the ethnic Persian , Sibawayhi quotes from Abu Amr 57 times in his Kitab , mostly by transmission from Ibn Habib and al-Farahidi.[ 12]
The Qur'an reciter Al-Duri was the student of al-Yazīdī, who was Ibn al-ʻAlāʼs student, and preserved his recitation, passing on his method to Niftawayh and Muhammad bin Dawud al-Zahiri .[ 13] Hasan al-Basri and Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf were the first and second most eloquent and pure speakers of the Arabic language.[ 14] Syria , Ibn al-ʻAlāʼ experienced a series of fainting fits and died in Kufa in 770CE (154AH).[ 1] [ 2]
References
^ a b c d Sībawayh, ʻAmr bin ʻUthmān (1988), Hārūn, ʻAbd al-Salām Muḥammad (ed.), Al-Kitāb Kitāb Sībawayh Abī Bishr ʻAmr bin ʻUthmān bin Qanbar , vol. Introduction (3rd ed.), Cairo: Maktabat al-Khānjī, p. 13 ^ a b Ibn Khallikan 's Biographical Dictionary, translated by William McGuckin de Slane . Paris : Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. Sold by Institut de France and Royal Library of Belgium . Vol. 2, pg. 402.^ Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari , History of the Prophets and Kings , trans. G. Rex Smith. Vol. 14: The Conquest of Iran, pg. 71. Albany : SUNY Press , 1989.^ a b Ibn Khallikan, vol. 2, pg. 399.
^ a b al-Aṣmaʿī at the Encyclopædia Britannica Online . ©2013 Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Accessed 10 June 2013.^ a b Peter G. Riddell, Early Malay Qur'anic exegetical activity , p. 164. Taken from Islam and the Malay-Indonesian World: Transmission and Responses . London: C. Hurst & Co. , 2001. ISBN 9781850653363
^ Introduction to Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on Al-Khalīl Bin Ahmad , pg. 2. Ed. Karin C. Ryding. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press , 1998. ISBN 9780878406630
^ Eckhard Neubauer, "Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad and Music." Taken from Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on Al-Khalīl Ibn Aḥmad , pg. 63. Ed. Karin C. Ryding. Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press , 1998. ISBN 9780878406630
^ Ibn Khallikan , Deaths of Eminent Men and History of the Sons of the Epoch , vol. 4, pg. 586. Trns. William McGuckin de Slane . London : Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1871.^ M.G. Carter, Sibawayh , pg. 21. Part of the Makers of Islamic Civilization series. London : I.B. Tauris , 2004. ISBN 9781850436713
^ Ibn Khallikan, vol. 2, pg. 400.
^ M.G. Carter, Sibawayh , pg. 19.
^ Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari, trans. Franz Rosenthal . Vol. 1: General Introduction and From the Creation to the Flood, pg. 58.
^ Ibn Khallikan, vol. 1, pg. 370.
Further reading
Nik Hanan Mustapha, "To What Extent Did Abu 'Amr ibn al-'Ala and al-Kisa`i Adhere to Their Respective Schools of Grammar? An Analytical Study in the Light of the Qur'anic qira`at." Journal of Qur'anic Studies, vol. 10, #1, pg. 202. January 2008.
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