Abu Ali al-Qaysi
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- 550 AH
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Abu Ali al-Qaysi (d. c. 550 AH / 1155 CE) was an Andalusian grammarian, philologist, and jurist, best known for his grammatical commentary Idah Shawahid al-Idah (Clarification of the Evidentiary Verses of al-Idah) .
Biography and Scholarly Work
Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn Abd Allah al-Qaysi lived during the sixth century AH as a contemporary of the grammarian Ibn Yas'un . In addition to Arabic grammar and lexicography, he engaged in Quranic recitation, jurisprudence, and literature .
Al-Qaysi received his education from several notable Andalusian scholars, including Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Abi al-Fadl al-Hajari, Abu al-Abbas Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Ansari al-Ashhali, Abu Abd Allah ibn Birr al-Buyut, and Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Ali, known as Ibn al-Badhish . He subsequently taught students of his own, among whom were Abu Musa Isa ibn Imran and the scribe Abu Ali Hasan ibn Abd Allah, known as Ibn al-Ashiri .
His principal grammatical contribution is Idah Shawahid al-Idah, a work devoted to explaining the poetic evidentiary verses (shawahid) cited in the grammar treatise al-Idah by Abu Ali al-Farisi . A manuscript of this commentary is preserved in the El Escorial library .
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Idah Shawahid al-Idah (Clarification of the Evidentiary Verses of al-Idah) is an Arabic grammatical work dedicated to explaining the poetic test verses cited in Abu Ali al-Farisi's grammar treatise al-Idah. Following the chapter arrangement of al-Farisi's original text, the work clarifies the exact evidential points of these citations, resolves their obscurities, and provides detailed grammatical parsing, verse attributions, and relevant lexical explanations.