The Issues of Grammatical Weightins in Ibin Al-Ala’ag Al-Ishbili’s in His Book (AL-Baseet Fi AL-Nahu)

Abstract

Grammarians use a lot of expressions that indicate their weightings for one of the grammatical issues, such as: the most correct, the correct, the most appropirate, and other such phrases, and Ibn al-Alaj al-Ishbili, is one of those who presented many opinions and quotes in his book (AL-baseet Fi AL-Nahu), Then he began to prefer, and choose one opinion over another, and he might agree with one of the doctrines and contradict the other, and he might be unique in his opinion without deviating from analogy, relying on the evidence that leads him to the argument and the evidence that he deems correct.  It is worth noting that Ibn al-Alaj often took the opinions of the scholars of Basra and followed their tracks, and relied on their principles in his weightings, and in that he did not fanaticize one school over another, and he might prefer the saying of one of the grammarians without regard to his school, so we see him sticking to moderation in his choice of opinion.  Just as he takes the opinion of Sibawayh at times, and he is from the visual school, he also takes the opinion of Al-Farra’, and he is from the Kufic school, or the opinion of the scholars of Andalusia or others, so you see it as a middle ground in his choices and preferences, and he used the foundations that he deems appropriate from hearing or analogy, as is the case with others.  They preceded him from the Arab grammarians.