The Mahdawi (440 AH) in his book Al-Tahsil for the benefits of Tafsir al-Tafsir al-Jami'at al-'Ilm al-Tanzil

Section: Quranic and Islamic education sciences
Published
Jun 24, 2025
Pages
1745-1766

Abstract

Deletion is a linguistic, grammatical, morphological, and rhetorical phenomenon that has its own laws and rules in Quranic and linguistic studies, ancient and modern, and has its semantic purposes. It is a subtle display of gentle conduct, to the point that some scholars said about it, deletion is the lack of mention, and the lack of mention is more eloquent than the mention.Accordingly, we can say with great confidence that deletion knocked on most of the doors of the language and was widely mentioned in the field of Arabic stricture. It took a path in establishing the pillars of grammatical analogies and was a point of contention for many decades between two of the statures of Arabic grammar, namely Basra and Kufa, until the matter began to spread its roots and penetrate into many jurisprudential issues, and those who stood out at the level of jurisprudence emerged for it and had what was denied as well as what was supported. Fundamental rulings and issues were built upon it and met with opposition. And the permissible Hence, deletion was a double-edged sword in its use or interpretation Accordingly, jurisprudence overlapped with language and united and opposed the jurisprudential and grammatical opinion. Whatever the case, deletion became an arena in which the jurist and the linguist met, and each of them might interact or oppose each other. Among the most prominent scholars of that era was the scholar The Maliki jurist, Imam al-Mahdawi, who was able to leave a clear impact in this field in his book At-Tahsl, for him the deletion was based on the rational tendency that is translated by the textual context of the verse, taking into account the ancient grammatical tendency that was built on the original Arabic analogy. We presented in our research a picture of that beautiful painting of this phenomenon. In it, he divided the research into several axes, including deletion of the noun, verb, and letter, each of which has its own division appropriate to what the dominance of the research requires. Then we included with it and ambiguity, due to the strong closeness between deletion and ambiguity. We mentioned that in our discussion of the difference between them. In conclusion, we ask God Almighty for good management, ample dialogue, and appreciation for what has been presented in the lines of this research, and from God, success.

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Hassan, A., عبير, Ali, S., & صالح. (2025). The Mahdawi (440 AH) in his book Al-Tahsil for the benefits of Tafsir al-Tafsir al-Jami’at al-’Ilm al-Tanzil. Journal of Education for the Humanities, 5, 1745–1766. https://doi.org/10.33899/jeh.2025.187146