Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Weipert, Reinhard
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Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī , Sahl b. Muḥammad al-Jushamī (d. 255/869), was an Arab philologist, one of the most prominent representatives of the Basran school. Abū Ḥātim was the disciple of Abū ʿUbayda, Abū Zayd al-Anṣārī, and, especially, al-Aṣmaʿī (for a complete list, see the foreword in Tafsīr gharīb , ed. Muḥammad Aḥmad al-Dālī (item number 7 below), 14-9). He became a respected teacher in various philological disciplines and brought up nearly a whole new generation of famous ulamāʾ , among them al-Mubarrad, Abū Saʿīd al-