Sharh for Kaafiya

[Seekeress@0]

Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatULLAHI wa barakatuHU,

Which Sharhs for Kaafiya (Arabic and/or Urdu ) are usually recommended to students to refer to, in madrassahs/darul-ulooms?

JazakumULLAH Khair,
Wassalam ma'al-ikram

[Mubid al-Majus]

Assalamu Alaikum wa rahmatULLAHI wa barakatuHU,

Which Sharhs for Kaafiya (Arabic and/or Urdu ) are usually recommended to students to refer to, in madrassahs/darul-ulooms?

JazakumULLAH Khair,
Wassalam ma'al-ikram

wa `alaykum al-salam,

No experienced teacher or student will ever recommend you a commentary other than those in Arabic. Unless, of course, you need it for translation or something in a language other than Arabic is written better than what is in Arabic, which will never be the case when it comes to works on Arabic sciences. The Arabic commentaries of al-Kafiyah in Arabic are written by early experts of the language, whereas the Urdu commentaries are written by contemporary scholars who have good knowledge of it, with all due respect; and this is also the reason why many Urdu commentaries have mistakes and weak material. And if you've done Hidayat al-Nahw or Sharh Qatr al-Nada properly, or any one of those, then studying an Arabic commentary of al-Kafiyah shouldn't be hard for you. If it is, then you should work on your base before you start with al-Kafiyah.

If you are going to study Sharh al-Jami after al-Kafiyah then one good way to study the latter, while studying it with a teacher, is with the following books:

[1] The commentary of Badr al-Din Ibn Jama`ah (d. 733). It is a very solid and concise commentary that will allow you to look beyond the lines drawn by Ibn al-Hajib. It brings forth many important points that you will not find in Sharh al-Jami while not going into much detail and leaves all the very basic things you learned in what you studied in your second-level introductory texts.

[2] The commentary of Husayn ibn Ahmad Zayni Zadah (d. 1168). One of my teachers, who has been teaching Arabic for over 35 years, strongly recommends this commentary. He explained to me that the reason behind his recommendation is that the text of al-Kafiyah is very complex [mughlaq] and Zayni Zadah's commentary opens up each sentence and explains it in a very good manner. It also has many beneficial points that you may not find in any other commentary.

If you do this, then studying Sharh al-Jami after will be an awesome experience. If you're not going to study Sharh al-Jami, then you can study it with al-Kafiyah and then whatever text you've planned to study after it.

This is what I think. Perhaps the scholars on this forum can correct me if I'm wrong or share their better opinions on commentaries.

['Abd al-Baari]

wa `alaykum al-salam,

No experienced teacher or student will ever recommend you a commentary other than those in Arabic. Unless, of course, you need it for translation or something in a language other than Arabic is written better than what is in Arabic, which will never be the case when it comes to works on Arabic sciences. The Arabic commentaries of al-Kafiyah in Arabic are written by early experts of the language, whereas the Urdu commentaries are written by contemporary scholars who have good knowledge of it, with all due respect; and this is also the reason why many Urdu commentaries have mistakes and weak material. And if you've done Hidayat al-Nahw or Sharh Qatr al-Nada properly, or any one of those, then studying an Arabic commentary of al-Kafiyah shouldn't be hard for you. If it is, then you should work on your base before you start with al-Kafiyah.

If you are going to study Sharh al-Jami after al-Kafiyah then one good way to study the latter, while studying it with a teacher, is with the following books:

[1] The commentary of Badr al-Din Ibn Jama`ah (d. 733). It is a very solid and concise commentary that will allow you to look beyond the lines drawn by Ibn al-Hajib. It brings forth many important points that you will not find in Sharh al-Jami while not going into much detail and leaves all the very basic things you learned in what you studied in your second-level introductory texts.

[2] The commentary of Husayn ibn Ahmad Zayni Zadah (d. 1168). One of my teachers, who has been teaching Arabic for over 35 years, strongly recommends this commentary. He explained to me that the reason behind his recommendation is that the text of al-Kafiyah is very complex [mughlaq] and Zayni Zadah's commentary opens up each sentence and explains it in a very good manner. It also has many beneficial points that you may not find in any other commentary.

If you do this, then studying Sharh al-Jami after will be an awesome experience. If you're not going to study Sharh al-Jami, then you can study it with al-Kafiyah and then whatever text you've planned to study after it.

This is what I think. Perhaps the scholars on this forum can correct me if I'm wrong or share their better opinions on commentaries.

Assalaamu 'alaykum,

JazaakumAllahu khayr for your detailed post akhee. What are the names of the two commentaries that you mentioned?

[Seekeress@0]

wa `alaykum al-salam,

No experienced teacher or student will ever recommend you a commentary other than those in Arabic. Unless, of course, you need it for translation or something in a language other than Arabic is written better than what is in Arabic, which will never be the case when it comes to works on Arabic sciences. The Arabic commentaries of al-Kafiyah in Arabic are written by early experts of the language, whereas the Urdu commentaries are written by contemporary scholars who have good knowledge of it, with all due respect; and this is also the reason why many Urdu commentaries have mistakes and weak material. And if you've done Hidayat al-Nahw or Sharh Qatr al-Nada properly, or any one of those, then studying an Arabic commentary of al-Kafiyah shouldn't be hard for you. If it is, then you should work on your base before you start with al-Kafiyah.

If you are going to study Sharh al-Jami after al-Kafiyah then one good way to study the latter, while studying it with a teacher, is with the following books:

[1] The commentary of Badr al-Din Ibn Jama`ah (d. 733). It is a very solid and concise commentary that will allow you to look beyond the lines drawn by Ibn al-Hajib. It brings forth many important points that you will not find in Sharh al-Jami while not going into much detail and leaves all the very basic things you learned in what you studied in your second-level introductory texts.

[2] The commentary of Husayn ibn Ahmad Zayni Zadah (d. 1168). One of my teachers, who has been teaching Arabic for over 35 years, strongly recommends this commentary. He explained to me that the reason behind his recommendation is that the text of al-Kafiyah is very complex [mughlaq] and Zayni Zadah's commentary opens up each sentence and explains it in a very good manner. It also has many beneficial points that you may not find in any other commentary.

If you do this, then studying Sharh al-Jami after will be an awesome experience. If you're not going to study Sharh al-Jami, then you can study it with al-Kafiyah and then whatever text you've planned to study after it.

This is what I think. Perhaps the scholars on this forum can correct me if I'm wrong or share their better opinions on commentaries.

JazakALLAH Khairan Kathira,
Wassalam ma'al-ikram

[Mubid al-Majus]

Assalaamu 'alaykum,

JazaakumAllahu khayr for your detailed post akhee. What are the names of the two commentaries that you mentioned?

al-Badr Ibn Jama`ah's expertise in Arabic is not commonly known among students and he is rather famous as a scholar of hadith. But he was a student of none other than Ibn Malik, and his commentary shows how strong he was in Arabic. It is printed simply as "Sharh al-Kafiyah."

The commentary of Zayni Zadah is called "al-Fawa'id al-Shafiyah."