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Collection of proverbs

Name: Collection of proverbs
Author: أبو الفضل أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم الميداني النيسابوري (المتوفى: 518هـ)

مجمع الأمثال

Author: أبو الفضل أحمد بن محمد بن إبراهيم الميداني النيسابوري (المتوفى: 518هـ) (d. 518)

About this work

مَجْمَعُ الأَمْثَالِ هو كتاب من تأليف أبي الفضل أحمد بن محمد النيسابوري المعروف بالميداني، ويعتبر هذا الكتاب مرجعاً في الأمثال العربية القديمة، عدد صفحاته لا يقل عن ألفى صفحة مقسمة على ثلاثين بابا، حافلة بروايات وأشعار وأمثال العرب في الجاهلية وفي الإسلام، يحكى أن الزمخشري بعدما ألف المستقصى في أمثال العرب وقع له هذا الكتاب فأطال نظره فيه وأعجبه جدا ويقال إنه ندم على تأليفه المستقصى لكونه دون مجمع الأمثال في حسن التأليف والوضع وبسط العبارة وكثرة الفوائد.

Translation

The Collection of Proverbs is a book written by Abu al-Fadl Ahmad bin Muhammad al-Naysaburi, known as al-Maydani. This book is considered a reference in ancient Arabic proverbs. Its number of pages is no less than two thousand pages divided into thirty sections, full of novels, poems, and proverbs of Arabs in pre-Islamic times and in Islam. It is said that Al-Zamakhshari, after he wrote Al-Mustakas fi Proverbs of the Arabs, came across this book, looked at it for a long time, and liked it very much. It is said that he regretted writing Al-Mustakas because he He recorded a collection of proverbs in good composition, placement, simplicity of expression, and abundance of benefits.

Topics covered

Translated by Al-Maydani, author of “Majma’ Al-Athwal”.
The first chapter begins with a hamza.
Chapter: What I have come to do from this chapter.
The second chapter begins with B.
What I came to do from this section.
The third chapter begins with Ta.
Chapter Four, as it begins with Tha'a.
Chapter Five, beginning with C.
Gentiles.
Chapter Six, beginning with H.
Chapter Seven, beginning with Kha.
Chapter Eight, as it begins with D,
Chapter Nine: The beginning is the following.
Chapter Ten: Its beginning is R.
Chapter Eleven, beginning with G
Gentiles
Chapter Twelve, beginning with Sen
Chapter thirteen, beginning with Shin
What I came to do from this section
Chapter Fourteen, beginning with S
Chapter fifteen: Its beginning is a lexical adjective
Chapter sixteen, beginning with I

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