AL Imam AL-Dashtaki and the Sources of his book Al-Hashiya on Explanation Al-Kafiya

Abstract

The work raises its author to the ranks of exaltation and honor, and the book Al-Kafiyya fi Grammar by Ibn Al-Hajib (d. 646 AH) is one of the grammatical books that were written in the seventh century AH, and which received the attention of scholars, who dealt with it with explanation and clarification, and put abbreviations and arrangements on it, and one of his explanations was Sharh Al-Kafiyah by Shihab al-Din al-Dawlatabadi. Al-Hindi Al-Zawali (d. 849 AH), who received attention from scholars, so they placed footnotes and report on it, including the Hashiya of Mir Ghiyath Al-Din Mansur bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al-Tashtaki Al-Shirazi (d. 948 AH), which are like comments that the author places in the margin.to explain and clarify what is obscure and difficult to understand.

      The study revolves around revealing the personality of a scholar who lived in the first half of the tenth century AH. I wanted to shed light with a brief translation of Al-Mahshi due to the paucity and scarcity of what has been translated for this venerable scholar, while clarifying the nature of Al-Hashiya, its importance, and its sections, with a focus on the sources from which he derived his scientific material in Al-Hashiya, including the proper names and books, they were diverse and many of them were in language, grammar, morphology, rhetoric, interpretation, theology, logic, and others. Some of them were attributed to their authors and some were not attributed, as well as transmission from scholars, whether it was literal transmission, by conduct, or through an intermediary. It is an educational book that studies in the Arabic language the science of Arabic grammar. This undoubtedly reflects for us the extent of the author’s interest in the Arabic language, as Arabic was not his language; Rather, it was Persian