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Abu al-Aswad al-Du'ali

Abu al-Aswad

أبو الأسود الديلي/الدؤلي

Zalim bin 'Amr b. Sufyan b. Jandal b. Ya'mur b. Hunsh(Hulays) b. Tha'laba b. 'Ady b. al-Dayl

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There are different versions of his name. \r\nHe was apartisan poet of the Shi'a. He was reliable in hadith. When 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas resigned as governor and left Basra, he delegated Abu'l Asward, ad-Du'ali in charge of it and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib conformed him. Said to be the founder of Arabic grammar,invented a system of providing fathah, dammah and kasra to indicate some vowel sounds.\r\n
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'Umar ibn al-KhattabAli ibn Abi TalibZubayr ibn al-Awwamibn Mas'udibn AbbasAbu Dharr al-GhaffariMu'adh ibn JabalUbayy ibn Ka'bAbu Musa al-Asha'ari'Imran bin Husain
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Abu Harb bin Abi al-AswadYahya bin Y'amar'Abdullah bin Burayda bin al-HusaybS'aid bin 'Abdur Rahman bin Raqaysh
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Father

'Amr b. Sufyan

Life Details

Born

Unknown

Birth City

Kufa

Died

69 AH/688 CE

Death City

Basra

Cause

Natural

Lived in

Kufa, Basra

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