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The extreme in every art is the extreme

المستطرف في كل فن مستطرف

Author: شهاب الدين محمد بن أحمد بن منصور الأبشيهي أبو الفتح (المتوفى: 852هـ) (d. 852)

About this work

يعد كتاب "المستطرف في كل فن مستظرف" من الأعمال الأدبية المهمة التي تناولت جمع الطرائف والأمثال والحكم في مختلف أبواب الأدب والعلوم، حيث اشتمل على محتوى متنوع من الأخبار والأقوال والأمثال، موزعاً على فصول و أبواب تناولت مواضيع متعددة من العقيدة والعبادات إلى العقل والعلم والأدب، معتمداً على مصادر متعددة من القرآن والسنة والأمثال العربية والشعر. ويتميز الكتاب بنكهته الفريدة ومواده الجديدة التي لم تذكر في المصنفات الأخرى من نوعه.

Translation

The book “The Extremist in Every Art is Extremist” is considered one of the important literary works that dealt with the collection of anecdotes, proverbs, and wisdom in various sections of literature and science, as it included a diverse content of news, sayings, and proverbs, distributed into chapters and sections that dealt with multiple topics from belief and worship to reason, science, and literature, relying on multiple sources from the Qur’an, the Sunnah, Arabic proverbs, and poetry. The book is distinguished by its unique flavor and new materials that are not mentioned in other works of its kind.

Topics covered

  • The first chapter on the principles of Islam
  • The first chapter is about devotion to God Almighty and praise of Him
  • The second chapter is about prayer and its virtues
  • Chapter Three: Zakat and its merits
  • Chapter Five: Hajj and its virtues
  • The second chapter is about reason, intelligence, foolishness, its disparagement, and other things
  • Chapter Four: Knowledge, literature, and the virtue of the scholar and the educated
  • Chapter Five is about etiquette, governance, and the like
  • Chapter Six: Proverbs
  • The second chapter on Arab proverbs
  • The third chapter is about the proverbs of the common people and the born ones
  • The letter Alif
  • The unified letter Ba
  • The letter ta is the superior flexor
  • The letter J
  • The neglected letter Ha
  • Lexical letter kha
  • The neglected letter dal
  • The dictionary letter D
  • The letter r
  • The letter Zai
  • The neglected letter S
  • The dictionary letter Sheen
  • The neglected letter Sad
  • Lexical letter dād

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المستقصى في أمثال العرب