Abū al-Walid Muḥammad (d. ca. 1048), son and pupil.
Abū Bakr az-Zubaydī (أبو بكر الزبيدي), also known as Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan ibn ‘Abd Allāh ibn Madḥīj al-Faqīh and Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan az-Zubaydī al-Ishbīlī (محمد بن الحسن الزبيدي الإشبيلي), held the title Akhbār al-fuquhā[1] and wrote books on topics including philology, biography, history, philosophy, law, lexicology, and hadith.
Life
Az-Zubaydī was a native of Seville, al-Andalus (present-day Spain), whose ancestor, Bishr ad-Dākhil ibn Ḥazm of Yemeni origin, had come with the Umayyads to al-Andalus from Ḥimṣ in the Levant (Syria).[citation needed] Az-Zubaydī moved to Córdoba, the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate, to study under Abū ‘Alī al-Qālī. His scholarship on the philologist Sībawayh’s grammar, Al-Kitāb, led to his appointment as tutor to the son of the humanist caliph Ḥakam II, the crown prince Hishām II.[citation needed] At the Caliph’s encouragement, az-Zubaydī composed many books on philology, and biographies of philologists and lexicographers. He became qāḍī of Seville, where he died in 989.[citation needed]
Ṭabaqāt an-Naḥwīyīn wa-al-Lughawīyīn (طبقات النحويين واللغويين) ‘Categories of Grammarians and Linguists’; (973–6) Biographical dictionary of the early philologists and lexicographers of the Basran, Kufan and Baghdād schools; almost contemporaneous with Ibn an-Nadim's Al-Fihrist. Both works bear witness to the emergence of the science of Arabic philology, and to the close intellectual contact between the Abbāsid and Umayyad seats of power at Baghdād and Cordoba, respectively. (Cairo, 1954)[4][5][6][7]
Akhbār al-fuquhā; al-muta’akhkhirīn min ahl Qurṭuba; History of the jurisconsults of Córdoba[1]
Amthilat al-abniya fī Kitāb Sībawayh Tafsīr Abī Bakr al-Zubaydī
Qifṭī (al-), ‘Alī ibn Yūsuf (1986). Inbāh al-rawāt (in Arabic). Beirut: Muʼassasat Kutub al-Thaqāfīyah. pp. 108–9.
Qifṭī (al-), ‘Alī ibn Yūsuf (1975). Mamarī, Ḥasan; al-Jāsar, Ḥamad (eds.). al-Muḥammadūn min shu'arā (in Arabic). Dimashq: Majmaʻ al-Lughah al-ʻArabīyah bi-Dimashq. pp. 207–9.
Ṣafadī (al-), Salah al-Dīn (2000). "815". In ʻAdnān al-Baḫīt, Muḥammạd (ed.). Al-Wāfī bi 'l-wafayāt (in Arabic). Beirut: Dar Ehia al-Tourath al-Arabi. pp. 259–60.
Bonebakker, Seeger (1961) [1960]. "Notes on Some Old Manuscripts of the Adab al-kātib of ibn Qutayba, the Kitāb aṡ-Ṡināʿatayn of Abū Hilāl al-ʿAskarī, and the Maṯal as-sāʾir of Ḍiyāʾ ad-Dīn ibn al-Aṯīr". Oriens. 13/14. Leiden: Brill: 174. JSTORi271071.
Sellheim, Rudolf (1955). "Reviewed Work: Ṭabaqāt an-naḥwīyīn wal-luġawīyīn by Az-Zubaidī, Muḥammad Abu l-Faḍl Ibrāhīm". Oriens (in German). 8 (2). Leiden: Brill: 346–348. doi:10.2307/1578904. JSTOR1578904.
Sellheim, R (2002), "Al-Zubaydī", Encyclopedia of Islām, vol. xi (New ed.), Leiden: E. J. Brill, pp. 548–9