A modern version of his work.

 

Al-Zamakhshari: Rabi al-Abrar (Righteous Spring) (d1144).

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Rabi al-Abrar wa nusus al-Akhbar are classical books written about Islam by Mu'tazili Islamic Scholar Zamakhshari. Other transliteration: Rabi ul-Abrar. It has been used as a reference by books such as Peshawar Nights and scholars like Badruddin Shibli (died 769 A.H.).

 

Taken from: alwaraq.net

 

P197

Z. r.f.

Zarafa are over sixty (times mentioned). And two of them are in the hadeeth. And a giraffe came from among the offspring from out of their womb. This is the only way. In the Book of Sibweh (1): God created the giraffe her hands, longer than her legs. It is named in the name of the group because it is in the form of a group of animals.

 P405

About the smell of the mouth; this is influenced by the amount of saliva; those who keep producing the saliva when asleep like the Zinj have the best smell of the mouth. (3)

 P410

Jahiz (4): the armpits of the Zinj sweat septique, the rest of the body is proper.

 P507

Of fish migration (2), as in birds, including sea alasbawr and sea alnrsug go from the Tigris at Basra to Zinj… Twice in a year.
Staying in the Tigris for two months, the fish in the first stay are fatter than in the second. They say that from Basra to Zinj is further then to China.

(1) Book of Sibweh: (765 - 796); It is considered the first book that coordinates and writes down the rules of the Arabic language.

(2) The migrating fish at Basra…..  The barastouj …… : these paragraphs are repeated by many authors: Jahiz's Kitab al-Hayawan (869); Ibn al-Fakih al Hamadhani (903); Shah Mardan Ibn Abi al-Khayr: (11th); Mohammad ebn Mahmud ebn Ahmad Tusi (1160); Al-Zamakhshari (d1144); Al-Qazwini(d. 1283); Qadi Ibn Sasri Al-Shafi’I (around 1300); al-Watwat (d1318) ); Rukneddin Ahmed (1420). These fish in reality only immigrate from the open sea to the coast.

(3) They have the cleanest teeth of mankind because they have much saliva. This is repeated with variations by: Al-Jahiz (869); Ibn Qutayba (880); Ibn Abd Rabbih (d940); Abu Hilal Al-Askari (1005 AD); Ibn Butlan (1066); Abu Ubayd Al Bakri (1067); Al-Raghib al-Isfahani (1109); Al-Zamakhshari (d1144); Ibn al Jawzi (1200); At Tahqiq fi sira ar raqiq (1250); al-Abshihi (1450); Al Amsati al Hanafi (1478).

(4) see my several webpages on Jahiz (869)