_Imām Ibn Qudāmah -rahimahullāh-_
Said:
And amongst those ‘Ulama, are those who engross their full time for just studying the authenticity of a Hadīth, compiling its narrations and chains that looked unfamiliar.
Thus, due to this, those ‘Ulama wish to travel to every land in order to meet great scholars so that at the end, they may say while being proud with such achievement of theirs:
_Indeed, we have narrated from such and such great ‘Ālim, we have met so so person, and also, we have some chains of Hadīth which are strange._
Also, amongst them are those who busy and spend their whole life in the knowledge of Arabic grammar, its poetry, and they thought that by so doing, they are the greatest scholars of the Ummah.
However, if they were people of deep understanding, they would have realized that spending their whole life *only* for the knowledge of Arabic grammar is as though like spending one’s full time in studying Turkish language, the only thing that makes Arabic language different is just because it is the language of the sharia and one cannot fully comprehend the Dīn except through deep understanding of the Arabic language.
Therefore, one doesn’t need to spend one’s whole life in its study leaving behind some vital matters like Tawhīd and its likes. Hence, it is enough for one to have the knowledge of the strange words of Arabic be it the strange words of the Qur’ān, Hadīth, and of its grammar, it suffices one to know how to communicate smoothly with Arabic language.
But, to go deep in the study of Arabic grammar which has neither limit nor end, then this act, no doubt, occupy and busy one from that which is more essential.
Allāhu A’alam! Bārakallāhu fīkum!
*29th Jumād Al- Ākhir,1439H.*
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