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There are different versions of his name.<br> He was apartisan poet of the Shi'a. He was reliable in hadith. When 'Abdullah ibn 'Abbas resigned as governor and left Basra, he delegated Abu'l Asward, ad-Du'ali in charge of it and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib conformed him. Said to be the founder of Arabic grammar,invented a system of providing fathah, dammah and kasra to indicate some vowel sounds.