The Aajurroomiyyah Blog: January 2018

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The Importance of the Arabic Language

إنَّ اللُغَةَ العَرَبِيةَ مِنَ الدِّيْنِ وَ مَعْرِفَتُهَا فَرْضٌ وَاجِبٌ فَإنَّ فَهْمَ الكِتَابِ وَ السُّنَّةِ فَرْضٌ وَ لاَ يُفْهَمُ إلاَّ بِاللُغَةِ العَرَبِيةِ وَ مَا لاَ يَتِمُّ الوَاجِبُ إلاَّ بِهِ فَــــــــهُوَ وَاجِبٌ

“Indeed the Arabic language is from the Religion, knowing it is an obligatory obligation, understanding the Book and the Sunnah is obligatory, it is not understood except by way of the Arabic language, and an obligation is not complete except by it therefore making it obligatory (to learn) .”

Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah)

Who was Ibn Aajurroom?

He was Aboo ‘Abdillah Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Daawud as-Sanhaajee, the Faqih (Islamic Jurist), the Nahawee (Arabic grammarian), Moroccan by birthright, better known as Ibn Aajurroom which is a word taken from the Berber language of Amazigh and is alleged to mean “the poor Sufi”. Ibn ‘Anqaa said in al-Kawaakib-ud-Duriyyah (1/25) regarding the meaning of this name: “…it is a non-Arabic word of the Berbers said to mean the poor Sufi but I did not find the Berbers knowing it to mean that…rather it is a specific tribe from amongst the Berbers, a tribe named Banoo Aajurroom.” Ibn Aajurroom’s grandfather Daawud was the first person to be known by this nickname.

He was born in Fez (Morocco) from an area known as Sanhaajah. He studied there and then desired to go to Makkah for pilgrimage where he passed through Cairo and stayed there for a while to study under and obtain certification from the Andalusian grammarian Aboo Hayyaan Muhammad bin Yoosuf al-Granaatee (rahimahullah) who passed away in Cairo in the year 745 A.H. (1345 C.E.).

While living some time in Makkah he authored al-Muqaddimat-ul-Aajurroomiyyah fee Mabaadee ‘Ilm-il-‘Arabiyyah (the Introductory Text of al-Aajuroom regarding the Basic Fundamentals concerning the Science of the Arabic language). It was the primer text that was studied in the science of the Arabic language in his time which based its fundamental sections off of both the Kufi and Basri schools of grammar despite the fact that Ibn Aajurroom himself closely followed the school of the Kufis.

After returning from Makkah to Fez he remained teaching Arabic grammar and the Quran in Jaami’-ul-Hayy al-Andalusee (the Mosque of the Andalusian Quarter) until he died in the year 723 A.H. (1323 C.E.).

Ibn Aajurroom was known for giving legal rulings as well as rectifying the peoples affairs and was described by his contemporaries as being a legal jurist, highly educated, a mathematician, the Imam of an-Nahw (Arabic grammar and syntax), and the one who had a vast knowledge of other sciences from them Tajweed and ash-Shaatibiyyah entitled Faraaid-ul-Ma’aanee fee Sharhi Hirzil-Amaatee he recitation of the Quran.He has many other authored works in addition to various poems written in the meter of Rajaz. From them is his explanation of ash-Shaatibee’s (590 A.H./1194 C.E.) poem known as reaching two volumes. The two volumes that were written by his hand are stored away in the library of Rabat, Morocco.

Ibn-ul-‘Imaan al-Hanbalee (rahimahullah) said of him in Shadhraat-udh-Dhahab: “Aboo ‘Abdillah Muhammad bin Muhammad bin Daawud as-Sanhaajee known as Ibn Aajurroom, pronounced with a Fatah on the elongated Hamzah, a Dhammah on the Jeem and a Shaddah on the Raa, the meaning of his name in the language of the Berbers means ‘the poor Sufi’, he is the author of the well known introductory treatise on Arabic grammar al-Aajurroomiyyah”.

And Ibn Maktoom (rahimahullah) made mention of him in his Tadhkarah saying: “An Arabic grammarian and reciter of the Quran, he had a vast knowledge of Islamic inheritance, arithmetic, outstanding manners, and he authored many beneficial works in addition to various poems written in the meter of Rajaz.”And another said of him: “He was known for grace and piety and what bears witness to this is the prevalence of benefit that is contained in his introductory work al-Aajurroomiyyah.”

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