al-Lakhmi, Ibn Hisham
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- 577 AH
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Ibn Hisham al-Lakhmi (d. 577 AH / 1181–1182 CE) was an Andalusian-Maghrebi philologist and grammarian from Seville who settled in Ceuta, best known for his treatise on linguistic correction, al-Madkhal ila Taqwim al-Lisan .
Biography
Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Hisham ibn Ibrahim ibn Khalaf al-Lakhmi hailed originally from Seville and later moved to Ceuta in the Maghreb during the Almohad era, where he resided for a long period teaching Arabic and language disciplines .
Among his teachers were Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi, Abu Tahir al-Silafi (from whom he held an authorization, ijazah), Abu Bakr ibn Tahir, and Abu Ja'far al-Bitrawji . He taught numerous students, including Abu Abd Allah ibn Ghazi al-Sabti (who transmitted his writings), Abu al-Hasan ibn Ahmad al-Khawlani, Abu Abd Allah ibn Abd Allah ibn Sa'id al-Kattani, Abu Ali Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Judhami, Abu Umar Yusuf ibn Abd Allah al-Ghafiqi, and Abd Allah ibn al-Far . An audition of his teaching is recorded as early as 557 AH . Ibn Hisham al-Lakhmi died in 577 AH .
Scholarly Standing
Ibn Hisham al-Lakhmi was regarded as thoroughly grounded in grammar and profoundly versed in lexicography and literary disciplines . Ibn al-Abbar noted that he taught Arabic and had a commanding grasp of grammar and language, though his capacity for memorizing verse was considered weak .
His principal contribution to the literature on common speech errors (lahn al-amma), al-Madkhal ila Taqwim al-Lisan wa-Ta'lim al-Bayan, critiqued earlier treatises by Abu Bakr al-Zubaydi and Ibn Makki al-Siqilli, demonstrating where earlier scholars had mistakenly rejected valid dialectal variants attested in classical Arabic usage . He also composed Sharh al-Fasih, an analytical philological commentary on Tha'lab's Kitab al-Fasih .
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al-Madkhal ila Taqwim al-Lisan (also known under the fuller title al-Madkhal ila Taqwim al-Lisan wa-Ta'lim al-Bayan) is a treatise on linguistic correction and common speech errors (lahn al-amma). It focuses on correcting commonly used vocabulary that had altered from its original usage, defending permissible dialectal variants against overly rigid earlier authorities, and addressing solecisms prevalent in its era.
Sharh al-Fasih is an Arabic philological commentary written to explain and critique Tha'lab's Kitab al-Fasih. It aims to clarify difficult vocabulary and obscure expressions, point out errors and oversights based on sound transmissions, and provide concise explanations covering semantic definitions, grammatical parsing, and morphological forms across the original work's chapters.