ARABIC 9 USE OF LITERARY DEVICE CONCISENESS & EXPATIATION IN FATH UL BARI

شواهد الإيجاز والإطناب في فتح الباري

Abstract

Hafiz Ibn Hajar Al- Asqalani (1372- 1449) is one of the most prominent literary figure, writer and  Islamic scholar  of fourteenth  century in Muslim world. Fath al Bari is the  most celebrated Hadith commentary on Sahi bukhari written by him. It is reported that it took almost twenty five years to complete this book. This book has been declared the most magnificent achievement of exegetical discourse. It is a comprehensive book for the sciences of the Arabic language. In addition to its explanation of the noble hadiths, it includes jurisprudence, grammar, morphology, rhetoric and it contains sermons, proverbs and various methods of communication. The conciseness and the expatiation are the two most important elements of this book. So this article studies both; the evidence of conciseness and expatiation style of Ibn e Hajr. The purpose of this research is to analyze  and highlight the evidence of these two rhetoric devices in his writing style. The method used in this research is descriptive, analytical and qualitative. . At the end of the study, the researchers have drawn various conclusions.