The grammatical efforts of Al-Hattab Al-Ra’ini in his book Mawahib Al-Jalil to explain Khalil Al-Haruf's summary as an example

Abstract

The study showed the grammatical efforts of Al-Hattab Al-Ra’ini in his book Mawahib Al-Jalil to explain Khalil Al-Haruf's summary as an example - which is a book on Maliki jurisprudence - but through it, I showed the author’s style and approach in presenting the grammatical issues related to the letters. I dealt with the issues after classifying them and presented the opinions of the ancient grammarians who had credit for setting the rules for grammar, like Sibawayh, the author of the book.

The research aimed to show the grammatical issues in Al-Hattab’s letters in his book, to explain the relationship between jurisprudence and grammar by reviewing the issues that Al-Hattab dealt with, how to explain them, and to find out their jurisprudential ruling with its aspects that differ according to the difference in controlling these issues.

The researcher followed the descriptive analytical approach in the study, as he presented the issues and explained the opinions of the ancient grammarians in a manner that I considered to be characterized by objectivity. He also avoided adding or subtracting from the opinions he conveyed and expressed his opinion at the end of each question whenever this was required, citing Qur’anic evidence, prophetic hadiths, or verses. Poetics and Arab sayings for some of them.

It became clear to the researcher the results after studying Al-Hattab’s grammatical efforts in the letters that Al-Hattab’s jurisprudential culture and his interest in explaining what was lacking in explanation and detail among the imams who preceded him in explaining Khalil Al-Haruf's summary. He did not go beyond any of them, but on the contrary, he inferred from their sayings and took them whenever his need for that arose. This also became clear to the researcher. Al-Hattab reviewed his grammatical issues and sought help from the opinions of the oldest of them, such as Sibawayh. He did not neglect to mention what grammarians agreed with and disagreed with in his issues, and in some of them, he declared his agreement or rejection to whoever he saw fit.

The research was summarized in three sections, the first of which was on single letters, the second on double letters, and the third on three- and four-letter letters. This was sufficient to examine Al-Hattab’s review of his grammatical issues in the letters in his book, and I clarified Al-Hattab’s opinion after the opinions of the grammarians, indicating the jurisprudential and grammatical aspects of the issue so that the reader can understand the close relationship between grammar and jurisprudence through jurisprudential rule that is coupled with grammatical rule.