Al-Mubarrad (المبرد)[n 1] (al-Mobarrad),[2][3] or Abū al-‘Abbās Muḥammad ibn Yazīd (c. 826 – c. 898), was a native of Baṣrah.
[n 2] He began studying Sībawayh's Book with al-Jarmī, but completed it with al-Māzinī, whose linguistic theories he developed.
Al-Ṣūlī Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Yahya said he was buried in the cemetery of the Kūfah Gate.
In one such tale al-Mubarrad says He estimated that “Abū Zayd[23][24][25] knew a great deal about grammar, but less than al-Khalīl and Sībawayh.
"[28] In another tradition al-Mubarrad read a poem of the poet Jarīr to a student of al-Aṣma‘ī and Abū ‘Ubaydah,[29][30] called al-Tawwazī,[31][32][33] in the presence of the poet’s great grandson Umārah,[34][35] which began: until he came to the line When ‘Umārah asked al-Tawwazī how his master Abū ‘Ubaydah would interpret “Jumanah and Rayyā”, al-Tawwazī replied, “The names of two women,” ‘Umārah laughed saying, ‘These two, by Allāh, are two sandy places to the right and left of my house!'
‘Ubayd ibn Dhakwān Abū ‘Ali,[42] among whose books there were Contraries, [n 16]Reply of the Silencer, Oaths (Divisions) of the Arabians, Abū Ya‘lā ibn Abī Zur‘ah, a friend of al-Māzinī, who wrote A Compendium of Grammar (unfinished) [44] Al-Mubarrad‘s leading pupil al-Zajjāj became an associate of al-Qāsim, the vizier of the ‘Abbāsid caliph al-Mu‘taḍid (892-902), and tutor to the caliph’s children.
[54] [55] and Abū al-Ḥasan ‘Alī ibn ‘lsā al-Rummānī,[56][57][58] wrote a commentary on the “Introduction" (Al-Madkhal) (on grammar) of al-Mubarrad.