Discussion of his works.
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The student: His works: Ibn Malik wrote many books:
Among them: *The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik*, which he named *Al-Khalasah*, but it became famous as the Alfiyyah because it is a thousand verses in which he gathered the objectives of Arabic, the objectives of Arabic in grammar and morphology.
Second: *Tashil al-Fawa'id wa Tamhid al-Maqasid*, which is an abridgment of a book of his titled *Kitab al-Fawa'id fi al-Nahw*.
Third: *Lamiyyat al-Af'al* or the book *Al-Miftah fi Abniyat al-Af'al*, and it is called: The Lamiyyah of Ibn Malik.
Fourth: *Al-Kafiyyah al-Shafiyyah*, which is a poem on grammar of two thousand, seven hundred, and fifty-seven verses, from which he abridged this Alfiyyah of his.
Fifth: *'Uddat al-Hafiz wa 'Umdat al-Lafiz*.
The Shaykh : 'Uddah, 'Uddah.
The student: *'Uddat al-Hafiz wa 'Umdat al-Lafiz fi al-Nahw*.
Sixth: *Sabb al-Manzum wa Fakk al-Mukhtam fi al-Nahw*.
Seventh: *Ijaz al-Ta'rif fi 'Ilm al-Tasrif*.
Eighth: *Shawahid al-Tawdih wa Tashih Mushkilat al-Jami' al-Sahih*.
Ninth: *Kitab al-'Arud*.
The Shaykh : ... Mushkilat al-Bukhari, Mushkilat al-Bukhari.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Al-Jami' al-Sahih means al-Bukhari, yes.
The student: Ninth: *Kitab al-'Arud*.
Tenth: *Tuhfat al-Mawdud fi al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud*, which is a poem in the Hamzah meter in which he gathered the words whose end is an alif that might be confused as being short or long.
Eleventh: *Al-Alfaz al-Mukhtalifah Majmu' Mutaradifat*.
Twelfth: *Al-I'tidad fi al-Furq bayn al-Sad wa al-Dad*, a commented poem.
Thirteenth: *Al-I'lam bi-Muthallath al-Kalam*, a poem of about three thousand verses in which the words that have three meanings due to the difference in their vowel movements are mentioned, and he arranged those words in alphabetical order, so it is like a dictionary for the trilateral words.
The Alfiyyahs:
Ibn Ma'ti preceded Ibn Malik in composing a grammatical Alfiyyah, in composing a grammatical Alfiyyah, Ibn Ma'ti, then Ibn Malik came and composed this Alfiyyah of his, and in it he says: "Surpassing the Alfiyyah of Ibn Ma'ti".
And the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik is distinguished from the Alfiyyah of Ibn Ma'ti.
The Shaykh : The Alfiyyah of Ibn, Ibn Malik.
The student: And it is distinguished.
The Shaykh : The Alfiyyah.
The student: And the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik is distinguished.
The Shaykh : Ibn Malik.
The student: Ibn Malik from the Alfiyyah of Ibn Ma'ti in that it is from one meter, from one meter, which is the Kamil Rajaz, and that one is from the Sari' and Rajaz, and that one is from the Sari' and Rajaz, and that it has more rulings than it.
And al-Jalal al-Suyuti has an Alfiyyah in which he added much to this, and he said at its beginning: "Surpassing the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik".
And al-Ajurr al-Maliki.
The Shaykh : Al-Ajurr.
The student: And al-Ajurr al-Maliki has an Alfiyyah.
The Shaykh : But the Alfiyyah of al-Suyuti, may Allah have mercy on him, he says:
"Surpassing the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik *** For being clear in its paths"
But in my opinion, this Alfiyyah is not clearer than the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik, not clearer, meaning you can hardly understand anything from it, but yes.
The student: And al-Ajurr al-Maliki has an Alfiyyah in which he added to al-Suyuti, and he said: "Surpassing the Alfiyyah of al-Suyuti", and what we can say is that.
The Shaykh : No one came after them, no one came after them, may Allah have mercy on them, yes.
The student: And what we can say is that the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik.
The Shaykh : Ibn.
The student: Ibn Malik is the one for which permanence was written and the benefit of which spread.
The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.
The student: So it is the goal of every seeker of Arabic, and it is the one that many scholars took up with explanation, simplification, and clarification.
Commentaries on the Alfiyyah: The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik received the attention of many of the masters of grammar, so they took it up with explanation and interpretation, they took it up with explanation and interpretation, and among its commentators is the author and his son, Badr al-Din.
The Shaykh : And his son, and his son.
The student: And his son, Badr al-Din Muhammad, and Burhan al-Din Ibrahim al-Anbasi al-Hashimi, and Baha' al-Din ibn 'Aqil, and the Shaykh 'Abd Allah al-Adkawi, and Badr al-Din al-Hasan al-Misri known as Ibn Umm Qasim, and Nur al-Din Abu al-Hasan al-Ashmuny, and al-Mukhtar ibn Bun, and Zayn al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman known as al-'Ayni, and Abu Zayd 'Abd al-Rahman al-Makudi, and Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al-Ra'ini al-Andalusi, and Shams al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah al-Hawari al-Andalusi, and others.
The Shaykh : And others.
The student: And others. And the most widespread and popular of its commentaries is the commentary of Ibn 'Aqil and the commentary of al-Ashmuny. It ended.
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah bless you, if it ended...
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : This is what is considered a commentary on *Awadh al-Masalik*; it is not a commentary because it does not answer the verses and explain them, yes.
The student: ... a rule so that he knows the number of extra verses ... he reads ...
The Shaykh : Why?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : How? The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik.
We read the introduction, and among what passed us was that one of the students of Ibn Malik was al-Nawawi, may Allah have mercy on him, and some scholars mentioned that the saying of Ibn Malik in the chapter of the subject and predicate: "And a man of the noble ones is with us", he means al-Nawawi.
And al-Nawawi, may Allah have mercy on him, mentioned in the chapter on the description of prayer, when speaking about the ruling on speech in prayer, he mentioned Ibn Malik and described him as our Shaykh to whom the leadership in the Arabic language ended in our time, so he praised him greatly, and this is a testimony from al-Nawawi, may Allah have mercy on him, for Ibn Malik.
He says: "Said Muhammad, he is Ibn Malik", to the end of it.
Among them: *The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik*, which he named *Al-Khalasah*, but it became famous as the Alfiyyah because it is a thousand verses in which he gathered the objectives of Arabic, the objectives of Arabic in grammar and morphology.
Second: *Tashil al-Fawa'id wa Tamhid al-Maqasid*, which is an abridgment of a book of his titled *Kitab al-Fawa'id fi al-Nahw*.
Third: *Lamiyyat al-Af'al* or the book *Al-Miftah fi Abniyat al-Af'al*, and it is called: The Lamiyyah of Ibn Malik.
Fourth: *Al-Kafiyyah al-Shafiyyah*, which is a poem on grammar of two thousand, seven hundred, and fifty-seven verses, from which he abridged this Alfiyyah of his.
Fifth: *'Uddat al-Hafiz wa 'Umdat al-Lafiz*.
The Shaykh : 'Uddah, 'Uddah.
The student: *'Uddat al-Hafiz wa 'Umdat al-Lafiz fi al-Nahw*.
Sixth: *Sabb al-Manzum wa Fakk al-Mukhtam fi al-Nahw*.
Seventh: *Ijaz al-Ta'rif fi 'Ilm al-Tasrif*.
Eighth: *Shawahid al-Tawdih wa Tashih Mushkilat al-Jami' al-Sahih*.
Ninth: *Kitab al-'Arud*.
The Shaykh : ... Mushkilat al-Bukhari, Mushkilat al-Bukhari.
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : Al-Jami' al-Sahih means al-Bukhari, yes.
The student: Ninth: *Kitab al-'Arud*.
Tenth: *Tuhfat al-Mawdud fi al-Maqsur wa al-Mamdud*, which is a poem in the Hamzah meter in which he gathered the words whose end is an alif that might be confused as being short or long.
Eleventh: *Al-Alfaz al-Mukhtalifah Majmu' Mutaradifat*.
Twelfth: *Al-I'tidad fi al-Furq bayn al-Sad wa al-Dad*, a commented poem.
Thirteenth: *Al-I'lam bi-Muthallath al-Kalam*, a poem of about three thousand verses in which the words that have three meanings due to the difference in their vowel movements are mentioned, and he arranged those words in alphabetical order, so it is like a dictionary for the trilateral words.
The Alfiyyahs:
Ibn Ma'ti preceded Ibn Malik in composing a grammatical Alfiyyah, in composing a grammatical Alfiyyah, Ibn Ma'ti, then Ibn Malik came and composed this Alfiyyah of his, and in it he says: "Surpassing the Alfiyyah of Ibn Ma'ti".
And the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik is distinguished from the Alfiyyah of Ibn Ma'ti.
The Shaykh : The Alfiyyah of Ibn, Ibn Malik.
The student: And it is distinguished.
The Shaykh : The Alfiyyah.
The student: And the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik is distinguished.
The Shaykh : Ibn Malik.
The student: Ibn Malik from the Alfiyyah of Ibn Ma'ti in that it is from one meter, from one meter, which is the Kamil Rajaz, and that one is from the Sari' and Rajaz, and that one is from the Sari' and Rajaz, and that it has more rulings than it.
And al-Jalal al-Suyuti has an Alfiyyah in which he added much to this, and he said at its beginning: "Surpassing the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik".
And al-Ajurr al-Maliki.
The Shaykh : Al-Ajurr.
The student: And al-Ajurr al-Maliki has an Alfiyyah.
The Shaykh : But the Alfiyyah of al-Suyuti, may Allah have mercy on him, he says:
"Surpassing the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik *** For being clear in its paths"
But in my opinion, this Alfiyyah is not clearer than the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik, not clearer, meaning you can hardly understand anything from it, but yes.
The student: And al-Ajurr al-Maliki has an Alfiyyah in which he added to al-Suyuti, and he said: "Surpassing the Alfiyyah of al-Suyuti", and what we can say is that.
The Shaykh : No one came after them, no one came after them, may Allah have mercy on them, yes.
The student: And what we can say is that the Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik.
The Shaykh : Ibn.
The student: Ibn Malik is the one for which permanence was written and the benefit of which spread.
The Shaykh : Allahu Akbar.
The student: So it is the goal of every seeker of Arabic, and it is the one that many scholars took up with explanation, simplification, and clarification.
Commentaries on the Alfiyyah: The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik received the attention of many of the masters of grammar, so they took it up with explanation and interpretation, they took it up with explanation and interpretation, and among its commentators is the author and his son, Badr al-Din.
The Shaykh : And his son, and his son.
The student: And his son, Badr al-Din Muhammad, and Burhan al-Din Ibrahim al-Anbasi al-Hashimi, and Baha' al-Din ibn 'Aqil, and the Shaykh 'Abd Allah al-Adkawi, and Badr al-Din al-Hasan al-Misri known as Ibn Umm Qasim, and Nur al-Din Abu al-Hasan al-Ashmuny, and al-Mukhtar ibn Bun, and Zayn al-Din 'Abd al-Rahman known as al-'Ayni, and Abu Zayd 'Abd al-Rahman al-Makudi, and Abu Muhammad al-Qasim al-Ra'ini al-Andalusi, and Shams al-Din Abu 'Abd Allah al-Hawari al-Andalusi, and others.
The Shaykh : And others.
The student: And others. And the most widespread and popular of its commentaries is the commentary of Ibn 'Aqil and the commentary of al-Ashmuny. It ended.
The Shaykh : Yes, may Allah bless you, if it ended...
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : This is what is considered a commentary on *Awadh al-Masalik*; it is not a commentary because it does not answer the verses and explain them, yes.
The student: ... a rule so that he knows the number of extra verses ... he reads ...
The Shaykh : Why?
The student: ... .
The Shaykh : How? The Alfiyyah of Ibn Malik.
We read the introduction, and among what passed us was that one of the students of Ibn Malik was al-Nawawi, may Allah have mercy on him, and some scholars mentioned that the saying of Ibn Malik in the chapter of the subject and predicate: "And a man of the noble ones is with us", he means al-Nawawi.
And al-Nawawi, may Allah have mercy on him, mentioned in the chapter on the description of prayer, when speaking about the ruling on speech in prayer, he mentioned Ibn Malik and described him as our Shaykh to whom the leadership in the Arabic language ended in our time, so he praised him greatly, and this is a testimony from al-Nawawi, may Allah have mercy on him, for Ibn Malik.
He says: "Said Muhammad, he is Ibn Malik", to the end of it.