Qisas al-Anbiya by Ibn Kathir (قصص الأنبياء لابن كثير) — Page 8

Arabic text · النص

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

ضَبْطُ النَّصِّ عَلَى النُّسَخِ الْمَطْبُوعَةِ، وَكَانَ عَمَلُنَا بَعْدَ ذَلِكَ فِيمَا يَلِي:

Adjusting the text based on printed copies, and our work after that was as follows:

عَزْوُ الْآيَاتِ الْقُرْآنِيَّةِ إِلَى سُوَرِهَا وَتَرْقِيمُهَا بِهَامِشِ الْكِتَابِ.

1 - Attributing the Quranic verses to their surahs and numbering them in the margin of the book.

شَرْحُ الْغَرِيبِ مِمَّا وَرَدَ فِي الْكِتَابِ مِنَ الْأَلْفَاظِ الَّتِي تَحْتَاجُ إِلَى ذَلِكَ.

2 - Explaining the obscure terms that appeared in the book which require such explanation.

التَّرْجَمَةُ لِلْأَعْلَامِ الْمَوْجُودَةِ بِالْقَدْرِ الَّذِي يَخْدُمُ النَّصَّ،

3 - Translating the proper nouns present to the extent that serves the text.

التَّرْجَمَةُ لِلْأَمَاكِنِ وَالْبُلْدَانِ الْوَارِدَةِ بِالْكِتَابِ.

4 - Translating the places and countries mentioned in the book.

تَخْرِيجُ أَحَادِيثِ الْكِتَابِ، وَالتَّعَرُّضُ لِرِجَالِ الْحَدِيثِ وَإِبْرَازُ مَوَاطِنِ الضَّعْفِ فِي ضَعِيفِهِمْ بِالرُّجُوعِ إِلَى كُتُبِ «الْجَرْحِ وَالتَّعْدِيلِ».

5 - Extracting the book's hadiths, addressing the narrators, and highlighting the points of weakness in the weak ones by referring to the books of 'Al-Jarh wa al-Ta'dil'.

مَعَ الْحِفَاظِ عَلَى جَوْهَرِ الْكِتَابِ وَنُصُوصِهِ ثُمَّ التَّدَخُّلُ فِي الشَّكْلِ الَّذِي يُسَاعِدُ عَلَى كَشْفِ مَادَّتِهِ، وَإِبْرَازُ كُنُوزِهِ، وَذَلِكَ بِمَا يَلِي:

6 - While preserving the essence of the book and its texts, then intervening in the format that helps reveal its material and highlight its treasures, and that is by the following:

أ - تَمَّ تَقْسِيمُ الْكِتَابِ حَسَبَ تَقْسِيمِ الْمُؤَلِّفِ لِلْمَادَّةِ الْعِلْمِيَّةِ - إِلَى أَبْوَابٍ وَتَرْقِيمِهَا.

A - The book was divided according to the author's division of the scientific material into chapters and numbered.

ب - كَمَا تَمَّ تَقْسِيمُ الْأَبْوَابِ حَسَبَ تَقْسِيمِ الْمُؤَلِّفِ لِلْمَادَّةِ الْعِلْمِيَّةِ كَذَلِكَ - إِلَى فُصُولٍ وَتَرْقِيمِهَا.

B - The chapters were also divided according to the author's division of the scientific material into sections and numbered.

ج - تَمَّ وَضْعُ عَنَاوِينَ لِبَعْضِ الْفُصُولِ مِنْ عِنْدِنَا كَشْفاً لِمُحْتَوَيَاتِ الْفَصْلِ، وَوَضَعْنَا هَذَا الْعُنْوَانَ بَيْنَ مَعْقُوفَيْنِ هَكَذَا

C - Titles were placed for some sections by us to reveal the contents of the section, and we placed this title between brackets like this [....].

د - وَضَعْنَا مِنْ عِنْدِنَا صَفْحَةً مُسْتَقِلَّةً عِنْدَ أَوَّلِ كُلِّ بَابٍ مِنْ أَبْوَابِ الْكِتَابِ، كُتِبَتْ فِيهَا رَقْمُ الْبَابِ وَعُنْوَانُ الْبَابِ، وَكَذَلِكَ فُصُولُ الْبَابِ إِنْ كَانَ يَحْتَوِي عَلَى فُصُولٍ.

D - We placed an independent page by us at the beginning of every chapter of the book's chapters, in which the chapter number and chapter title were written, as well as the chapter's sections if it contained sections.

وَأَخِيراً تَمَّ عَمَلُ الْفَهَارِسِ الْكَاشِفَةِ لِمُحْتَوَيَاتِ الْكِتَابِ، وَالَّتِي تُعِينُ عَلَى إِبْرَازِ مَادَّتِهِ، وَتُسَاعِدُ الْقَارِىءَ فِي الْوُصُولِ بِيُسْرٍ إِلَى نَفَائِسِهِ،

7 - Finally, the indexes revealing the contents of the book were made, which assist in highlighting its material and help the reader in reaching its precious contents with ease.

Vocabulary · المفردات (17 verbs · 68 nouns)

• ضَبَطَ — to adjust
• وَرَدَ — to occur
• اِحْتَاجَ — to need
• خَدَمَ — to serve
• أَمْكَنَ — to be possible
• رَجَعَ — to return
• أَرَادَ — to want
• تَعَرَّضَ — to discuss
• سَاعَدَ — to help
• كَشَفَ — to reveal
• قَسَمَ — to divide
• وَضَعَ — to place
• اِحْتَوَى — to contain
• أَضَافَ — to add
• أَعَانَ — to assist
• وَصَلَ — to reach
• اِكْتَفَى — to suffice
• نَصّ — text
• نُسْخَة — copy
• مَطْبُوع — printed
• عَمَل — work
• آيَة — verse
• قُرْآنِيّ — Quranic
• سُورَة — surah
• تَرْقِيم — numbering
• هَامِش — margin
• كِتَاب — book
• شَرْح — explanation
• غَرِيب — strange
• لَفْظ — word
• تَرْجَمَة — biographical notice
• عَلَم — proper noun
• مَوْجُود — existing
• قَدْر — amount
• مُكْتَف — content
• تَحْرِير — editing
• اسْم — name
• مُتَرْجَم — biographed
• ذِكْر — mention
• تَارِيخ — date
• وَفَاة — death
• مَصْدَر — source
• رُجُوع — return
• مَزِيد — more
• مَعْرِفَة — knowledge
• مَكَان — place
• بَلَد — country
• وَارِد — mentioned
• تَخْرِيج — extraction
• حَدِيث — hadith
• رَجُل — man
• إِبْرَاز — highlighting
• مَوْطِن — location
• ضَعْف — weakness
• ضَعِيف — the weak
• جَرْح — wounding
• تَعْدِيل — modification
• حِفَاظ — preservation
• جَوْهَر — essence
• تَدَخُّل — intervention
• شَكْل — form
• كَشْف — revelation
• مَادَّة — material
• كَنْز — treasure
• تَقْسِيم — division
• مُؤَلِّف — author
• عِلْمِيّ — scientific
• بَاب — chapter
• فَصْل — section
• وَضْع — placement
• عُنْوَان — title
• بَعْض — some
• مُحْتَوَيَات — contents
• مَعْقُوف — bracketed
• صَفْحَة — page
• مُسْتَقِلّ — independent
• أَوَّل — first
• رَقْم — number
• اسْتِثْنَاء — exception
• أَخِير — last
• فِهْرِس — index
• كَاشِف — revealing
• قَارِىء — reader
• يُسْر — ease
• نَفِيسَة — precious