The morphological efforts of Abu al-Fadl Muhammad al-Hassan al-Ma’ini (d. 537 AH) in his book “Lawa’i’ al-Burhan wa Kati‘ al-Bayan”

Abstract

God has prepared for this language those who serve it and defend it from those who fight it and plot against it, so there was no era in which the language went through from distinguished scholars who study the language and record what is found in this language and what happens to it, or interpret the Holy Qur’an or explain an authentic hadith or a collection of poets’ collections. or other language issues. The study of the language was not limited to linguists alone, but the jurists and hadith scholars had a share in it. As for the jurists, they base their jurisprudential rulings on the language, and they often differed in jurisprudential rulings due to their differences in understanding the language. As for the muhadditheen, they study the most eloquent speech of those who pronounce Arabic and speak in it, so his speech must be free of melody and defect, and his speech must be preserved from additions, omissions and omissions, because the rulings are based on it. Among these notables is Abu al-Fadael Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Mu’ini al-Lughji, who wrote his book Lawa’i’ al-Burhan wa Kata’ al-Bayan fi Meanings of the Qur’an on the approach of well-known linguists in this regard, such as al-Farra’, glass and copper, in addition to the fact that it included verbal and jurisprudential benefits and indicative meanings. During the study of the researcher and his investigation of this book in the interpretation of the Noble Qur’an, he noticed that there was no previous study that dealt with it in any aspect of the research or study, whether in the interpretation or the science of hadith or in the language, which prompted the researcher to adopt the book and try to study it from the morphological point of view. The study reached the following results:1. Al-Luma'i Al-Burhan is a rich source of syntax and morphology, as it is full of them and is abundant in its sources in detail.2. Al-Maeeni was not satisfied with presenting the linguistic issue without a morphological explanation for it.3. We found that the grammatical choices are close to the morphological choices, and there is no preference for one topic over another.4. Al-Muaini uses the (question and answer) method in presenting the morphological material.5. Through the review of the author, it became clear to us that Al-Mu’eeni was one of the prominent grammarians in the Basran school, as it became clear that he had a liberal mind in expressing his accurate opinions, as he appeared in some of his opinions contrary to the doctrine of his Basran sheikhs, and that he agreed with the Kufans in some opinions.6. It became clear to us through an inventory of the Qur’anic evidence that Al-Mu’eeni clearly cares about the readings in the interpretation of the verses and surahs.7. Al-Maeeni's attention to the morphological issue was deep and extensive, as he presents the issue and identifies its different aspects and the most correct of them.8. Since the book is about the interpretation of the best words, and it is the book of God, the author was careful and keen to clarify what the legislator wanted in adhering to the correctness of the meaning and the soundness of syntax.