Mubarrad or Mobarrad, full name Abu Al-'Abbas Muhammad Ibn Yazid, (March 25, 826, Basra

Basra

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 - October, 898, Baghdad

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) was an Arab

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 grammarian

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. After studying grammar in that city, he was called to the court of the Abbasid

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 caliph

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 al-Mutawakkil

Al-Mutawakkil

Al-Mutawakkil ʻAlā Allāh Jaʻfar ibn al-Muʻtasim was an Abbasid caliph who reigned in Samarra from 847 until 861...

 at Samarra

Samarra

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 in 860. When the caliph was killed in 861, he went to Baghdad

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, remaining there most of his life as a teacher.

Al-Mubarrad became the leader of the Basran grammarians against the Kufa

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n school. His judgment, however, was independent, as is shown by his attack on some points in the grammar of Sibawayh

Sibawayh

Abū Bishr ʻAmr ibn ʻUthmān ibn Qanbar Al-Bishrī , commonly known as Sībawayh , was an influential linguist and grammarian of the Arabic language. He was of Persian origin born ca...

, the greatest writer of his own school. He died at Baghdad in 898.

His main work is the grammatical one known as the Al-Kamil ("The Perfect One"), which has been edited by W. Wright (Leipzig

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, 1864 seq.), and published at Constantinople

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 (1869) and Cairo

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 (1891). It was also edited more recently by Muhammad Dali (Beirut

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, 1406/1986). Two or three other works exist in manuscript; cf. C. Brockelmann, Geschichte der arabischen Litteratur, i.109 (Weimar

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, 1898).

Al-Mubarrad's writings are considered to be the first source recounting the story that Shahrbanu

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 or Shahr Banu — eldest daughter of Yazdegerd III, the last Emperor of the Sassanid dynasty of Persia/Iran — had married Hussain ibn Ali, the Prophet Muhammad

Muhammad

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's grandson and the third Shia Imam

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 and that she gave birth to Ali Zayn al Abidin (the fourth Shia Imam).