He studied under Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ and Ḥammād ibn Salamah. His pupils included al-Kisāʾī, Sībawayh, al-Farrāʾ, and many others. He lived to the age of eighty-three. Khalīfah ibn Khayyāṭ recorded his death in 183 AH. Yūnus also met ʿAbd Allāh ibn Abī Isḥāq and once asked him about a single expression. He presided over a regular teaching circle attended by students, men of letters, and the eloquent among the Bedouins. Thaʿlab states that he lived past one hundred. It is said that he never married nor owned a concubine. He authored several works on the Qurʾān and on the varieties of Arabic.

30 – ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muslim al-Qasmalī * (Kh, M, D, T, S)
The imam, devoted worshipper, and god-fearing scholar; Abū Zayd al-Qasmalī, originally from Khurasan and later of Basra, and counted among the trustworthy.
He narrated from ʿAbd Allāh ibn Dīnār, Maṭar al-Warrāq, Ayyūb, Abū Hārūn al-ʿAbdī, Ḥuṣayn ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, and several others.
Those who transmitted from him include al-ʿAqadī, al-Qaʿnabī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿĀʾishah, and Ḥafṣ ibn—