al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr.¹
305 – al-Zubaydī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh *
A foremost grammarian: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ʿUbayd Allāh ibn Maḍḥij al-Zubaydī, originally from Syria—Ḥimṣ in particular—and later from al-Andalus, where he settled in Seville. He authored a number of important works.
He heard ḥadith from Saʿīd ibn Faḥlūn, Qāsim ibn Aṣbagh, and Abū ʿAlī al-Qālī.
He studied Arabic under al-Qālī as well as under ʿAbd Allāh al-Riyāḥī.
Transmitters from him include his son Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, Ibrāhīm ibn Muḥammad al-Aflīlī, and another son, Abū al-Qāsim Aḥmad, the littérateur who served as judge of Seville.
The Andalusian ruler al-Mustanṣir summoned Abū Bakr al-Zubaydī from Seville to Córdoba so as to benefit from his learning. There he instructed a cadre of students, produced an abridgement of the Kitāb al-ʿAyn, and composed al-Wāḍiḥ on the Arabic language. He also tutored the heir apparent al-Muʾayyad bi-llāh Hishām.
He died in Jumādā al-Ākhirah, 379 AH, at the age of sixty-three.
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- The Great History (al-Tārīkh al-Kabīr).