From the first to put the grammar

Some people always wonder who was the first person to establish grammar in the Arabic language, and why did he establish it? In view of this, we will talk in this article about this personality who deserves all appreciation.

The first to speak Arabic

Ya'arub bin Qahtan was the first person to speak the Arabic language, and from that time people used it in their own way in their speech and poetry until the Holy Qur’an was revealed to Muhammad, may the peace and blessings of God be upon him, and it had such a level of linguistic miracle that no one was able to come up with the like of it, or even one of its verses. The linguistic miracle in the Holy Qur’an was so great and powerful that upon hearing it, the Arabs believed that it was the beginning of a new type of poetry, and therefore they accused our noble Messenger of witchcraft, and that he was a crazy poet despite being illiterate.

The first to develop the science of grammar

After Islam spread among non-Arab peoples, the language’s vocabulary began to be influenced by other languages and became broken, and its grammar was marred by defects and poor pronunciation. One day, a person called Abu Al-Aswad Al-Du’ali heard his daughter say: How beautiful is the sky? Her father replied: The stars, and she replied that she meant to be amazed, so he replied that she should say: How beautiful the sky is!

Another linguistic error is what Abu Al-Aswad Al-Du’ali heard from a reader reading the Almighty’s saying: “Indeed, God is free of the polytheists and His Messenger,” where this reader prepositioned the word “His Messenger” instead of raising it as a subject, and the predicate of the subject was omitted and estimated: And His Messenger is free of them. Because by dragging it, it showed sympathy for the polytheists, and thus the meaning changed.

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Abu Al-Aswad Al-Du'ali was keen on the language and its loss, feared and feared that the religious concepts would be lost and distorted, and feared that the language would wither and become distorted.

Imam Ali bin Abi Talib, peace be upon him, realized this, so he tried to solve this matter by dividing the word into sections: “Indeed and its sisters,” “exclamation,” “incline,” “addition,” “interrogative,” and other chapters. The other. After that, he asked Abu Al-Aswad Al-Du’ali to act, saying to him, “Grow this grammar,” and from this came the name of this science and linguistic art, grammar. Thus, Imam Ali, peace be upon him, was the first to establish grammar rules for the Arabic language.

Abu Al-Aswad Al-Du'ali took from that knowledge and added other chapters on it until he had enough, and after that others took it from him, including a person called Maymun Al-Aqarn, and a group of others, including: Abu Amr bin Al-Ala, then Al-Khalil bin Ahmed Al-Farahidi, then Sibawayh. Al-Kisa’i, and after that people became two groups: Kufi and Basri. Basra and Kufa were the sources of Arabic culture and language, and people still circulate and control the codification of grammar to this day.