Al-Mubarrad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Al-Mubarrad

Arab grammarian

Date of Birth: 24-Mar-0826

Place of Birth: Basra, Basra Governorate, Iraq

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0898

Profession: linguist

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Al-Mubarrad (??????) (al-Mobarrad), or Abu al-‘Abbas Mu?ammad ibn Yazid (Mar 25, 826 - Oct, 898), was a native of Ba?rah and a great philologist, biographer and a leading grammarian of the School of Basra, rival to the School of Kufa.
In 860 he was called to the court of the Abbasid caliph al-Mutawakkil at Samarra.
When the caliph was killed the following year, he went to Baghdad, and taught there until his death.
A prolific writer, perhaps the greatest of his school, his best known work is Al-Kamil ("The Perfect One" or "The Complete").A leading scholar of Sibawayh's seminal treatise on grammar, "al-Kitab" ("The Book"), he lectured on philology and wrote critical treatises on linguistics and Quranic exegesis (tafsir).
He is said to be the source of the story of Shahrbanu or Shahr Banu — eldest daughter of Yazdegerd III.His quote to would-be students was:: “Have you ridden through grammar, appreciating its vastness and meeting with the difficulties of its contents?"