al-Daqiqi
- Died
- 613 AH
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Sulayman ibn Banin al-Daqiqi (d. 613 AH / 1216 CE) was an Egyptian grammarian, philologist, and scholar of prosody, best known for his linguistic treatise Ittifaq al-Mabani wa Iftiraq al-Maani.
Identity and Education
Taqi al-Din Abu ‘Abd al-Ghani Sulayman ibn Banin ibn Khalaf ibn ‘Iwad al-Daqiqi was an Egyptian scholar affiliated with the Hanafi school of law, renowned for his mastery of Arabic grammar, literature, prosody, and inheritance law (fara'id). He received his primary training in Arabic grammar under the prominent Egyptian philologist Ibn Barri (‘Abd Allah ibn Barri), whom he accompanied closely for a considerable period and from whom he transmitted. He also studied and heard hadith from Isma‘il al-Zayyat.
Scholarship and Teaching
Al-Daqiqi composed works across the fields of grammar, Arabic metrics, and spiritual admonitions (raqa'iq). His philological work includes Ittifaq al-Mabani wa Iftiraq al-Maani (The Agreement of Forms and Divergence of Meanings), a semantic study of morphological homonymy, as well as Lubab al-Albab, a commentary elucidating the grammatical and poetic shawāhid found in the Kitab of Sibawayh.
He taught in Egypt and transmitted hadith and linguistic knowledge. Among his students was the hadith master al-Zaki ‘Abd al-‘Azim al-Mundhiri, who heard from him and narrated on his authority. The biographer and scholar Yaqut al-Hamawi met al-Daqiqi during several scholarly gatherings held in the presence of al-Qadi al-Akram and received a direct authorization (ijaza) from him to transmit his writings.
Death
Al-Daqiqi died in Cairo in 613 AH (1216 CE), though another report places his death in 614 AH (1217 CE).
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List of Works
Ittifaq al-Mabani wa Iftiraq al-Maani is an Arabic philological and lexicographical treatise focusing on Arabic lexical semantics and homonymy. It examines words that share identical morphological structures and surface forms but convey distinct definitions.