he transmitted hadith from Ayyub al-Sakhtiyani, Sayyar Abu al-Hakam, and a group besides them.

Those who later narrated from him include: al-Salt ibn Mas‘ud, ‘Abd Allah Mushkadanah, Nasr ibn ‘Ali, Abu Hafs al-Fallas, and several others.

Ibn Hibban listed him in al-Thiqat.

Muslim recorded one of his reports.

When Abu Hatim was asked about him, he replied, “He is majhul”—that is, his status was unknown to him—(1).

97 – Sibawayh, Abu Bishr ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Farisi *

The leading authority in grammar, the proof of the Arabs: Abu Bishr ‘Amr ibn ‘Uthman ibn Qanbar al-Farisi, later al-Basri.

He devoted some years to the study of jurisprudence and hadith, after which he turned wholeheartedly to Arabic linguistics. He excelled, rose to the pinnacle of his age, and composed his monumental Book, a work whose like has never been matched.

He took dictation from Hammad ibn Salamah, and he learned grammar under ‘Isa ibn ‘Umar, Yunus ibn Habib, al-Khalil, and Abu al-Khattab al-Akhfash al-Kabir.

Yahya al-Barmaki convened a debate in Baghdad between him and al-Kisa’i, attended by Sa‘id al-Akhfash and al-Farra’. During it the so-called “question of the wasp” was raised—a fabrication, I believe