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The good and sufficient companion and the gentle and healer advisor

Name: The good and sufficient companion and the gentle and healer advisor
Author: أبو الفرج المعافى بن زكريا بن يحيى الجريرى النهرواني (المتوفى: 390هـ)

الجليس الصالح الكافي والأنيس الناصح الشافي

Author: أبو الفرج المعافى بن زكريا بن يحيى الجريرى النهرواني (المتوفى: 390هـ) (d. 390)

About this work

هذا الكتاب "الجليس الصالح الكافي والأنيس الناصح الشافي" للعابد الفقيه المعافى بن زكريا، يتناول مواضيع متنوعة في الأدب والبلاغة، مُستعرضاً حكماً وأقوالاً لعلماء وأعراب، معتمداً على حديث وأبيات شعرية لاستكشاف معانيها اللغوية والنحوية. يهدف المؤلف من خلاله إلى تقديم جليس روحي يُؤنس القارئ ويُرشده، مُتضمّناً نوادر الأخبار وقصص الزهاد، مع تعليقات علمية على محتواها.

Translation

This book, “The Righteous and Sufficient Savior and the Anis, the Adviser and Healer,” by the worshiper, the jurist, and the healer Ibn Zakaria, deals with various topics in literature and rhetoric, reviewing wisdom and sayings by scholars and Bedouins, relying on hadith and poetic verses to explore their linguistic and grammatical meanings. Through it, the author aims to provide a spiritual companion who comforts and guides the reader, including news anecdotes and stories of ascetics, with scientific comments on their content.

Topics covered

introduction
First Council
Comment on the hadith
The verse and its language and grammar
Mention some news anecdotes
Crazy Bani Saad
Comment on the news
Second Council
Proximity letters
Combining the two languages
Meaning of sedition
Who was this verse revealed to?
Wise sayings from some scholars and Bedouins
The third council
This is for the sake of God
Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf was removed from the Two Holy Mosques
Omar, may God be pleased with him, is represented by poetry
Popular words
From the asceticism of the men of hadith
Of wise poetry
Fourth Council
Poetry is a wisdom
Doctrine of the author in the small
Brave warrior
Have good faith in God

الحلبة في أسماء الخيل المشهورة في الجاهلية