Ibn Saʿdan, and Muḥammad ibn ʿUmar ar-Rūmī.

He also had personal selections in Qur’an recitation, yet in doing so he never stepped outside the bounds of the Seven (1).

He tutored the caliph al-Maʾmūn and his standing became great. He was reliable, learned, and an unquestioned authority in the field of recitation. He knew nothing of hadith, but he transmitted historical reports, was a consummate grammarian, an encyclopedic scholar, and fully versed in the Arabic tongue, having taken the language from Abū ʿAmr and from al-Khalīl.

He authored the following works: al-Nawādir (Rare Expressions), al-Maqṣūr wa’l-Mam­dūd (Short and Long Vowels), al-Shakl (Vowel-Pointing), Nawādir al-Lugha (Linguistic Rarities), and al-Naḥw (Grammar).

He was the peer of al-Kisāʾī; the two of them would sit together in the mosque to instruct the people. He tutored al-Maʾmūn, while al-Kisāʾī tutored al-Amīn (2).

Abū Ḥamdūn related: “I was present with Ibn Abī l-ʿAtāhiya, and he copied from al-Yazīdī some ten thousand folios devoted solely to Abū ʿAmr ibn al-ʿAlāʾ.” (3)

I say: He lived seventy-four years and died in Baghdad in 202 AH. It is also said that he passed away in Marw while accompanying al-Maʾmūn.

220 – ʿAbd al-Razzāq ibn Hammām ibn Nāfiʿ al-Ḥimyarī
The eminent ḥāfiẓ (hadith master), the leading scholar of Yemen, Abū Bakr al-Ḥimyarī.