Zinat al-Arais min al-Taraf wa al-Nafais fi Takhrij al-Furu al-Fiqhiyya ala al-Qawaid al-Nahwiyya
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- Zinat al-Arais min al-Taraf wa al-Nafais fi Takhrij al-Furu al-Fiqhiyya ala al-Qawaid al-Nahwiyya
Zinat al-Arais min al-Taraf wa al-Nafais fi Takhrij al-Furu al-Fiqhiyya ala al-Qawaid al-Nahwiyya (Adornment of the Brides from Novelties and Treasures in Deriving Jurisprudential Branches from Grammatical Rules) is a treatise on jurisprudence and Arabic grammar by the Hanbali scholar Ibn al-Mubarrad (also known as Yusuf ibn Hasan ibn Abd al-Hadi, d. 909 AH / 1503 CE) .
Composition and Subject Matter
The work belongs to the specialized genre of legal literature devoted to deriving substantive jurisprudential rulings (furu') from grammatical rules and linguistic structures (al-qawa'id al-nahwiyya), demonstrating the function of Arabic grammar in legal interpretation and reasoning . In the treatise, Ibn al-Mubarrad compiles legal principles and contractual conditions, examining how legal determinations change when phrasing varies and how syntactic parsing (i'rab) alters legal outcomes .
Ibn al-Mubarrad completed the text at an early stage of his scholarly career on 1 Dhu al-Qi'dah 860 AH (1456 CE), when he was approximately twenty years of age .
Scholarly Context
The treatise is situated within a lineage of works dedicated to applying grammatical principles to jurisprudence, comparable to al-Kawkab al-Durri fi ma Yatakharraju ala al-Usul al-Nahwiyya min al-Furu al-Fiqhiyya by Jamal al-Din al-Isnawi (d. 772 AH) and Qamar al-Sahw fi Tanzil al-Fiqh ala al-Nahw by Ibn Tulun (d. 953 AH) .
Manuscripts and Publication
A manuscript of the work comprising approximately 72 folios is held at the Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (MS 3209/2, with another catalog listing as MS 3290/1 in the author's own hand) . The text was edited by Radwan ibn Gharbiyya and published by Dar Ibn Hazm in 1422 AH (2001 CE) .
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