Al-Salafī at the frontier port studied under him and praised his flawless command of the language, noting that he had composed an eleven-thousand-line poem refuting the Baghdad renegade (1). Were someone to claim that no one in his age surpassed him in linguistic mastery, the statement would not be far-fetched. Al-Salafī also told me, “I have never met anyone with a better memory for the language and for pure Arabic than Ibn al-Qattāʿ,” so I transmitted a great deal on his authority.
Ibn ʿAbdūn died in 519 AH.
315 – al-Baṭalyawsī, Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sayyid*
The distinguished scholar Abu Muhammad ʿAbd Allah ibn Muhammad ibn al-Sayyid, the grammarian, lexicographer, and prolific author.
He taught literary disciplines, produced a commentary on the Muwaṭṭaʾ, wrote the book al-Iqtidaab in Commentary (2) on Adab al-Kitāb, and another work entitled The Causes That Give Rise to Divergence
(1) He is Ahmad ibn Yahya ibn Ishaq, better known as Ibn al-Rawandi; he died in 298 AH. His biography appeared earlier, vol. 14, no. 31.
(*) Qalaid al-Iqyan, pp. 193–202; al-Sila, 1/292-293; Bughiyat al-Multamis, p. 324; Mu jam al-Buldan, 1/447; al-Istidrak (manuscript), 244/2; Inba al-Ruwat, 2/141-143; al-Maghrib fi Huli al-Maghrib, 1/385; Wafayat al-Ayan, 3/96-98; Tarikh al-Islam, 4:247/2-248/1; Talkhis Ibn Maktum, pp. 99-100; Masalik al-Absar, 4/3/404-405; Uyoun al-Tawarikh, 13/473-475; Mirat al-Jinan, 3/328; al-Bidaya wa-l-Nihaya, 12/198; al-Dibaj al-Mudhahhab, 1/441; Ghaya al-Nihaya, 1/449; Tabaqat Ibn Qadi Shuhba, 1/47-48; Bughyat al-Wu at, 2/55-56; Azhar al-Riyad, 3/101-149; Nafh al-Tib, 1/185 and 643-649; Kashf al-Zunun, pp. 48, 602; Shadharat al-Dhahab, 4/64-65; Rawdat al-Janat, 450-451; Hadiyyat al-Arifin, 1/454; Shajarat al-Nur al-Zakiyya, 1/130; Majallat al-Majma , 12/56.
Batalyaws: a large Andalusian town belonging to the district of Marida, situated on the Ana River west of Cordoba; during the era of the taifa kingdoms it served as the capital of the Tajibid branch of the Banu al-Aftas.
(2) This additional note is indispensable, for al-Batalyusi did not compose Adab al-Kitab; rather, he produced a commentary on the book =