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|a Grammatical thinking is an important subject in Arabic grammar, as it comprises the basic aspects on which Arabic grammar rose and got its power, like the roots; hearing, comparison, bringing, evidence and Arabs and grammarians unanimity as well as the theory of the agent and the grammatical cause, addressing, interpretation and derivation. Add to them, the grammatical differences, which depend on something out of hearing and comparison. Al-Mubarrad did function the roots of the Arabic grammar in his great grammatical heritage, like hearing, comparison and bringing evidence. Hearing, comprised the words of anyone reliable as to his influence; then it covered the Holy Koran, and the sayings of Allah's messenger (Allah's blessings and peace be on him) and the sayings of the pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Arabs up to the time when errors became the characteristic of the language. Al-Mubarrad built his rules and derived his evidence out of these three sources. The holy Koran and its different rehearsing were an important source among Al-Mubarrad, for the Koranic text came down to us from the of t-Wise, of t-Almighty who sent it down in clear Arabic language according to the Arabic rules and Arab styles. A look at the evidence given by Al-Muqtadhib alone, which was the oldest book of grammar that reached us after the book of Sibawayh, we an see that the Koranic evidence have exceeded five-hundred ones, where as those give by Sibawayh were totally three-hundred and seventy-three. The Koranic evidence had more space by Al-Mubarrad than others in comparison. The Koranic evidence was often unique in the context of grammatical deductions, which is a distinguishing characteristic of his approach. Many evidence concerning this argument exist in this study. This very fact reflects what some contemporary researchers argued that linguists had intentionally evaded tackling the Koranic text for the purpose of deriving their rules. Al-Mubarrad's evidence in poetry were totally five-hundred and sixty one. This means that his evidence taken from poetry were little more than those taken from the Holy Koran. Al-Mubarrad followed Sibawayh's stand as to readings. To Sibawayh the reading makes no difference, as it is a rule. This doesn't mean that Al-Mubarrad did not neglect some readings and preferred one for the other.
|a Al-Mubarrad was influenced by Sibawayh's approach, that he drew many of his evidence, particularly the words of the Arabs in both verse and prose. Most of his poetic evidence were derived from the pre-Islamic and the Islamic poetry. His stand as to the words of the Arabs was fed but by those who lived in the heart of the desert and didn't mingle with the urbans like Quais, Asad an Kinnana and Ta'i. Arab dialects got high esteem at Al-Mubarrad who highly evaluated them and evidence, particularly the Hujaz and Tamim dialects. As for his stand to Tradition (Hadith), he derived but little evidence in comparison to those he adapted from the Holy Koran and poetry. As for his stand to the phenomenon of irregularity and the irregular speeches said be anonymous, he got away from irregular narration. He also regards that the appropriate comparison can work even with the weak narration. Al-Mubarrad paid a great deal of attention to the auses of comparison; by the causes we mean the reasons in the light of which Al-Mubarrad explained the linguistic phenomena. Among these causes are the light accent, the heavy accent, the safe core and regarding the counter part, or attacking or ignoring or substituting it. He also paid attention to what the Arabs and grammarians ha agreed upon unanimously. Al-Mubarrad paid a great attention to the agent and cause too, which represent the second pillar of the grammatical thinking. He looked at agents as semantic and formal agents. The first doesn't subject to a formal example like power covering the subject and predicate and the verb in the present tense. The second agent like verbs, which are the strongest and then nouns and letters. Al-Mubarrad was keenly eager to explaining, even the terms were within his longing to explain. He also carefully dealt with the second regular cause as he did with other causes. He also paid a lot of attention to the third pillar of the grammatical thinking, i.e., directing, interpretation and derivation. Directing exists only when there is something which has been taken away from its direction, and which requires the ability to uncover its destination. Thus it is the operation the director carries out so as to give something its destination. Al-Mubarrad disagreed with ancestor, the grammarians, in many cases, though he had evaluated them highly as Al-Akhfas, Abil-Ala'a, Al-Khaleel, Younus and Sibawayh. He also diagreed with the Kufees but didn't give their name but in one context. Al-Mubarrad didn't continue himself for transmitting the old saying only, but he also came out with valuable opinions about many cases. He was unique in a collection of opinions in Grammar. All this proves how deeply this great scholar was rooted in the grammatical thinking and how much great his efforts were in annotation.
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