ʿAṭāʾ ibn Mālik ibn Aḥmad al-Naqqāsh (1), Abū al-Maʿālī Muḥammad ibn Naṣr al-Madīnī, and others.
He died in Rajab of the year 502 AH.
170 – al-Tibrīzī, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad
The leading authority on the Arabic language, Abū Zakariyyā Yaḥyā ibn ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥasan ibn Bisṭām al-Shaybānī, the preacher, known as al-Tibrīzī, was one of the eminent scholars of his age.
He travelled widely, studying literature under Abū al-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī, ʿUbayd Allah ibn ʿAlī al-Raqqī, and Abū Muḥammad ibn al-Dahhān.
In Ṣūr he heard ḥadīth from the jurist Sulaim, ʿAbd al-Karīm ibn Muḥammad al-Sayyārī, and Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb. He stayed for a time in Damascus, then in Baghdad, where the number of his pupils grew large, and he taught the sciences of language (2).
(1) The added phrase comes from al-Ansab.
(*) Principal biographical sources: al-Ansab, 3/21; Ibn Asakir, Tarikh Dimashq, 18: 87/1–88/2; Nuzhat al-alba, 372–374; al-Muntazam, 9/161–163; Mu jam al-udaba, 20/25–28; al-Istidrak, 1: 69/2; al-Lubab, 1/206–207; al-Kamil fiʾl-tarikh, 10/473; Inbah al-ruwat, no. 816; Wafayat al-aʿyan, 6/191–196; Ibn al-Abri, Mukhtasar Duwal al-Islam, 2/22; al-Mukhtasar fi akhbar al-bashar, 2/224; Talkhis Ibn Maktum, 271–272; al-Mustafad, 257; Uyoun al-tawarikh, 13/241–245; Mirʾat al-jinan, 3/172; al-Bidaya waʾl-nihaya, 12/171; Ibn Qadi Shuhba, Tabaqat al-nuhat, 530–531; al-Nujum al-zahira, 5/197; Bughyat al-wuʿat, 2/338; Miftah al-saʿada, 1/117; Kashf al-zunun, 108, 992; Shadharāt al-dhahab, 4/5; al-Falaka waʾl-maflukin, 66; Hadiyyat al-ʿarifin, 2/519; Brockelmann, 1/71; Encyclopaedia of Islam, 4/567–570.
(2) He later held the chair of literature at the Nizamiyya and was in charge of its library.