Ibn al-Saigh
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- 720 AH
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Ibn al-Saigh (645–720 AH / 1247–1320 CE) was a Syrian-Egyptian grammarian, prosodist, and Hanafi jurist based in Damascus, best known for his grammatical commentary al-Lamha fi Sharh al-Mulha .
Name and Early Life
His full name was Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn al-Hasan ibn Sibaa' ibn Abi Bakr al-Judhami . Of Egyptian origin, he was born in 645 AH / 1247–1248 CE and settled in Damascus, where he came to be known as Ibn al-Saigh . He was affiliated with the Hanafi school of law .
Education and Scholarly Activity
In Damascus, Ibn al-Saigh received transmission in Hadith from Ibn Abi al-Yusr . He was recognized for his mastery of Arabic grammar, expertise in prosody, and extensive poetic output . Among his major scholarly works is al-Lamha fi Sharh al-Mulha, an extensive commentary on Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali al-Hariri's didactic grammatical poem Mulhat al-I'rab . He also wrote a two-volume commentary on the Maqsura of Ibn Durayd and prepared an abridgment of al-Jawhari's lexicon al-Sihah, divested of its poetic citations .
A number of notable scholars studied under him, including al-Dhahabi, who read to him and heard transmissions alongside Shaykh Alam al-Din, and Ibn Fadl Allah al-Umari, who studied literature and prosody under his instruction .
Death
Ibn al-Saigh died in Damascus in Sha'ban 720 AH / September 1320 CE at the age of seventy-five . Another report records his death in 722 AH / 1322 CE .
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List of Works
Al-Lamha fi Sharh al-Mulha (The Glance in Commenting on the Mulha) is an expansive grammatical commentary on Mulhat al-I'rab, a didactic grammatical poem by Abu Muhammad al-Qasim ibn Ali al-Hariri.