Little has been written, in the modern scholarship of Arabic linguistics tradition, on the actual elicitation techniques or procedures of data collection as implemented by traditional Arabic linguists. Knowing this aspect is crucial not only for determining the reliability of the collected data, but also the degree of confidence with which to approach relevant hypotheses made with respect to both (Arabic) linguistic analyses and the history of the Arabic language and its dialectal varieties. This paper deals with the instrumentation used by traditional Arabic linguists in collecting their data and some of the most significant considerations they took into account as they undertook field linguistics. The paper will be divided into two main parts. In the first part, data collection procedures will be dealt with by focusing on five issues related to: (I) background of informants, (II) gender of informants, (III) criteria of informant selection; (IV) elicitation techniques, and (V) methods of actual data recording. In the second half of the paper, a comparison of data elicitation techniques will be made between techniques conducted by traditional Arabic linguists and those conducted by modern linguists. Such a comparison is necessary in order to examine what data collection procedures entail as well as to arrive at an accurate understanding of the notions of reliability and determinacy as well as the extent with which to characterize the Arabic linguistic data collected within the Arabic grammatical tradition. The discussion of the Arabic data collection procedures is limited to the period from 8th to 10th Century which happens to be the formative years of the tradition. Primary sources belonging to the period are relied on, including: grammatical treatises (Al-Khalil Ibn Ahmad Al-Farahidi, Sibawayhi, Az-Zaggagi, and Ibn Jinni), lexicons (Ibn Durayd, Al-Jawhari, and Al-Azhari), poetry compilations (Al-Asma'i, Al-Qurashi, and Al-Asbahani), and mixed literary and linguistic works (Al-Mubarrid, Al-Qali, and Al-Jahidh).