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{{Short description|Islamic scholar and Qur’anic exegete (d. 949)}} |
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”’Abu Jaʿfar An-Nahhas”’ ({{lang|ar|أبو جعفر النحاس}}; {{circa}} 874 CE – 949 CE; {{circa}} 260 AH – 338 AH)<ref name=”maanipreface”/>{{rp|page=11}} was an Egyptian Muslim scholar of [[Arabic grammarians|grammar]] and [[tafsir|Qur’anic exegete]] during the |
”’Abu Jaʿfar An-Nahhas”’ ({{lang|ar|أبو جعفر النحاس}}; {{circa}} 874 CE – 949 CE; {{circa}} 260 AH – 338 AH)<ref name=”maanipreface”/>{{rp|page=11}} was an Egyptian Muslim scholar of [[Arabic grammarians|grammar]] and [[tafsir|Qur’anic exegete]] during the |
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[[Abbasid Caliphate|10th-century Abbasid period]]. |
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Latest revision as of 15:00, 2 February 2026
Islamic scholar and Qur’anic exegete (d. 949)
Abu Jaʿfar An-Nahhas (أبو جعفر النحاس; c. 874 CE – 949 CE; c. 260 AH – 338 AH)[1]: 11 was an Egyptian Muslim scholar of grammar and Qur’anic exegete during the
10th-century Abbasid period.
Abū Jaʿfar Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Ismā‘īl b. Yūnus al-Murādi, surnamed al-Nahhās “coppersmith“, was born in Fustat circa 260 AH. He studied in Baghdad under the foremost grammarians of the period, like Abu Ishaq al-Zajjaj who familiarised him with Al-Kitāb by Sībawayh. He also studied philology under Al-Akhfash al-Aṣghar and Nifṭawayh.[1]: 13–14 He is the author of an influential work on abrogation, Al-Nāsīkh wal-Mansūkh. He wrote a full grammatical analysis of the Qur’an and a grammatical primer known as “The Apple” (التفاحة at-Tuffāha). He also wrote works on poetry, including a commentary on the Mu’allaqat.[1]: 24–25
He was killed as he was reciting poetry sitting on the banks of the Nile in Cairo. The story goes that a passing peasant thought he was uttering a magical curse to prevent the rise of the Nile to raise the price of food, and so kicked him into the river causing him to drown.[1]: 25–26
- ^ a b c d aṣ-Ṣābūnī, Muḥammad ‘Alī (1988) [c. 900s]. “مقدمة المحقق” [Editor’s Preface]. معاني القرآن الكريم [The Vocabulary of the Holy Qur’ān]. By an-Nahhas, Abu Jaʿfar (in Arabic). Mecca: Umm al-Qura University. pp. 7–30.
- Mac Guckin de Slane, (trans.), Ibn Khallikan’s Biographical Dictionary, vol. 1, Paris, 1843, p. 81.
- Louis Moréri, Le grand dictionnaire historique (1759), Abou-Giafar al Nahas
