Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Abū ʿAmr al-Shaybānī , Isḥāq b. Mirār (d. 206/821, or 210/825, or 213/828, or 216/831), was a famous transmitter of poetry and lexicographer of the Kufan school in the second/eighth century. Abū ʿAmr was born in Kufa sometime in the first quarter of the second/eighth century. According to a statement of Abū Isḥāq al-Najīramī (lived in the first half of the fourth/tenth century) in his Amālī , quoted in Yāqūt (d. 626/1229), Muʿjam 2:625, his father was the descendant of an