 Abu al-‘Abbās Tha’lab

Tha‘lab (), whose kunya was Abū al-‘Abbās Aḥmad ibn Yaḥyā () (815 – 904) was a renowned authority on grammar, a muhaddith (traditionist), a reciter of poetry, and first scholar of the school of al-Kūfah, and later at Baghdād.He was a keen rival of Al-Mubarrad, the head of the school of al-Baṣrah.