Sa'id ibn Aws al-Ansari explained

Birth Place:	Ṣulbīyah al-Khazraj
Death Date:	831 [215 A.H.]
Main Interests:	poetry, philology, fiqh (law), etc.
Major Works:	Ṭabaqāt al-Naḥwīyīn wa-al-Lughawīyīn

Abū Zayd Sa’īd ibn Aws al-Anṣārī (Arabic: أبو زيد سعيد بن أوس الأنصاري; died 830 CE/215 AH) was an Arab linguist and a reputable narrator of hadith. Sibawayh and al-Jāḥiẓ were among his pupils.^{[1] [2] [3]} His father was Aws ibn Thabit also a hadith narrator, while his grandfather Thabit ibn Bashir was one of the three scribes who wrote down the Qur'an during Muhammad's era.

He died in Basra, Iraq.

Notes and References

1. Book: Khallikān (Ibn), Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad . Ibn Khallikan. Wafayāt al-A'yān wa-Anbā' Abnā' al-Zamān (The Obituaries of Eminent Men) . McGuckin de Slane. William . Paris. Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland . 1843. 570–2. I.
2. Book: Nadīm (al), Abū al-Faraj Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq Abū Ya’qūb al-Warrāq. Ibn al-Nadim. The Fihrist of al-Nadim; a tenth-century survey of Muslim culture. Dodge. Bayard . New York & London . Columbia University Press. 1970. i. 118–119.
3. Book: Ziriklī (al-), Khayr al-Dīn. Khair al-Din al-Zirikli. al-Aʻlām, qāmūs tarājim li-ashhar al-rijāl wa-al-nisāʼ min al-ʻArab wa-al-mustaʻribīn wa-al-mustashriqīn . 17 . . Dār al-ʻIlm lil-Malāyīn. III. 2007. ar . 92.