Al-Farrāʼ (الفراء) | |
|---|---|
| Born | 761 |
| Died | 822 |
| Other names | 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) |
| Academic background | |
| Influences | Sībawayh, Al-Kisā’ī, Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | philology, Arabic language, Bedouin poetry and idioms |
| Notable works | Al-Hudūd |
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[1] 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). [2]