the grammarian and prolific author. He was truthful, God-fearing, and upright. He learned Arabic grammar from Saʿīd al-Akhfash, and lexicography from Yūnus ibn Ḥabīb and Abū ʿUbaydah. He narrated from Yazīd ibn Zurayʿ and ʿAbd al-Wārith ibn Saʿīd, while Aḥmad ibn Mulāʿib, Abū Khalīfah al-Jumaḥī, and others narrated from him. Through his command of adab he won vast worldly wealth and high esteem.

Abū Nuʿaym the ḥāfiẓ said: “He came to Isfahān with Fayḍ ibn Muḥammad al-Thaqafī, who on the very day of his arrival gave him ten thousand dirhams and thereafter supplied him every month with a thousand.” (1)

Al-Mubarrad remarked: “Among the scholars al-Jarmī was the most reliable authority on Sībawayh’s Book, and the circles read it under his guidance. He was learned in the language and its guardian (2), distinguished in hadith and historical reports. He plunged even deeper into derivation than al-Māzinī, and in their day the science of grammar ultimately rested with the two of them.” (3)