Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī, al-Ḥasan b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Saʿīd Abū Aḥmad al-ʿAskarī (293–Ḍhū al-Ḥijja 382/906–February 993) was a lexicologist, man of letters and traditionist (muḥaddith) from Persia. He lived in ʿAskar Mukram, a town in Khūzistān, hence the nisba al-ʿAskarī (al-Samʿānī, 9/298; al-Qifṭī, 1/310; Abū al-Fidāʾ, 4/26). Early sources make no direct reference to his place of birth, but certain contemporaneous accounts (al-Ziriklī, 2/196) maintain it was ʿAskar Mukram.

It seems that Abū Aḥmad began his education with his father an…