Contrroversial Issues between AL-Basreen and AL-Kufeen in Ibn Khalawia's Book En titled "Parsing the seven Readings and its causes"

Abstract

This study tackles the issue of grammatical dispute observed in the book of "The Iraab of the Seven Qira'at and their Ilal" compiled by Ibn Khalaweiyh. The study recorded the disagreements between the Basris and the Kufis scholars observed in this book. The study firstly highlighted the science of Qira'at, the adopted Qira'at by the scholars of Nahw, and the effect of Iraab on the differences between Qira'at. The study then carried out a detailed study of the early and recent opinions of Nahw scholars in this regard in an inductive way. These opinions were systematically discussed to reveal their strengths and weaknesses based on the related literature. The discussed issues were divided to common issues that were mentioned in the different books, and specific ones that were only mentioned by Ibn Khalaweiyh in his book. Furthermore, these issues were divided according to the Nahw schools. In some of them, Ibn Khalaweiyh supported the Basris’ opinion, while in some other issues he supported the Kufis’ opinion. The study also discussed the issues in which Ibn Khalaweiyh mentioned the dispute without any judgment. As a result, the study found that Ibn Khalaweiyh’s book included seventy one issues divided as follows: Forty six issues that are commonly mentioned in the books of dispute, and twenty five issues that were solely mentioned by Ibn Khalaweiyh. The study also found that the Kufi’s issues form the majority of these issues, i.e. thirty five Kufi’s issues compared to twelve Basri’s issues in addition to twenty four issues without any supported opinion. The study finally explained the Nahw school of Ibn Khalaweiyh, which is the Kufi School, and his method in presenting the issues of dispute and dealing with the Seven Qira’at.