death_date death_place influenced birth_place burial_place influences juristic_school title denomination main_interests birth_date article_title name occupation region
935 baghdad muhammad bin dawud al-zahiri , al-masudi wasit kufa dawud al-zahiri , sibawayh zahiri the grammarian sunni arabic grammar , arabic literature 858 niftawayh
 niftawayh linguist , poet , historian mesopotamia
niftawayh

abu abdillah ibrahim bin muhammad bin ` urfah bin sulaiman bin al-mughira bin habib bin al-muhallab bin abi sufra al-azdi , better known as niftawayh , was a medieval muslim scholar .
he was considered to be the best writer of his time , in addition to an expert in muslim prophetic tradition and comparative readings of the qur ` an .
