Criticism Standards for Readings on Alzajaj and Alnahas: A Comparative Approach

Abstract

This research contains an inductive study of the style and methodology of the two imams Abu Jaafar al-Nahhas (d. 338 AH) and Abu Ishaq Ibrahim bin al-Sari al-Zajjaj (d. 311 AH) in the chapter on choosing and criticizing Qur’anic reading, and extracting the criteria and rules on which they based their opinions and choices, and the methods of graduation and grammatical guidance on which they relied. to it, and the types to which they were subjected to criticism and evaluation.

The relationship between parsing and Quranic reading arose as a result of the semantic variation in linguistic sounds, due to a pronunciation or dialectal variation, and from here grammatical interpretation appeared to enhance the reader’s choice and triumph for his doctrine. This is because reading is a Sunnah to be followed, and the Sunnah is more deserving of being followed without necessarily being subject to grammatical interpretation and definitive arguments, and it shows the importance of studying the readings in correcting linguistic usage. And comprehending the specific meanings of some tribes and others who fell into their orbit, and the researcher notes that stopping at the limits of syntax only with the two Imams al-Nahhas and al-Zajjaj does not bring the desired fruit. Rather, we can expand and extend to some jurisprudential horizons without going too far, so the value of that is no less than the value of reading, its syntactic interpretations, and its grammatical directions.