267 – Ibn Buhlūl, Abū Saʿd Dāwūd ibn al-Haytham ibn Isḥāq *

The erudite and accomplished scholar, Abū Saʿd Dāwūd ibn al-Haytham ibn Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl ibn Ḥassān al-Tanūkhī, from al-Anbār.

Born: 229 AH.

He received transmission from his grandfather, Isḥāq ibn Buhlūl, from ʿUmar ibn Shabbah, Ziyād ibn Yaḥyā al-Ḥassānī, and a number of others.

Among those who narrated from him were Ṭalḥah ibn Muḥammad, Ibn al-Muẓaffar, and Aḥmad ibn Isḥāq al-Azraq.

He studied Arabic literature under Thaʿlab.

The caliph al-Mutawakkil listened to him read, on the authority of his grandfather, the book “The Merits of al-ʿAbbās.” He was a grammarian, philologist, and an eloquent orator.

He authored several works, excelled in rhetoric, and was skilled at deciphering cryptograms.

Died: 316 AH.

268 – Ibn al-Sarrāj, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Sarrī al-Baghdādī **

The foremost grammarian, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn al-Sarrī al-Baghdādī, the grammarian, son of