Abu al-Hasan al-Ahmar (original) (raw)

'Abū al-Ḥasan Alī ibn al-Mubārak(or al-Ḥasan) al-Aḥmar (Arabic: أبو الحسن علي بن المبارك الأحمر) (d. 194 AH) (d. 810 AD) known for short as Abu al-Hasan al-Ahmar or al-Ahmar al-Nahawi (الأحمر النحوي; lit. 'al-Ahmar the Grammarian'), was a renowned Arab philologist and grammarian of the Kufan school. Described as 'The Sheikh of Arabic' by the historian al-Safadi. His knowledge of lexicographical matters are mentioned by many quotations in al-Gharib al-Musannaf (الغريب المصنف; lit. 'The Peculiar in Chapters') of his contemporary Abu Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Salam (770–838).