Abū Ḥātim al-Sijistānī, Sahl b. Muḥammad b. ʿUthmān b. Yazīd al-Jushamī (d. 255/869), was a Qurʾān reader (muqriʾ) and man of letters (adīb) from Baṣra. As he himself pointed out, he came from Sijistān (modern Sīstān) (Ibn al-Muʿtazz, 401), although some have taken his native Sijistān to be a small village near Baṣra (see Yāqūt, Buldān, 3/192). His family seems to have possessed property in …