Standards of Interpretation according to Ibn Qutaybah in the Chapter of Deletion and Brevity from his book "Interpretation of the Quran's Problematic Passages": A Semantic Study on the Origin of Language

Abstract

Ibn Qutaybah’s interpretive standards came in his book Interpreting the Problem of the Qur’an in accordance with the doctrine of the Muslim Sunnis, including the Qur’an and the Sunnah, without deviation or distortion, and were governed by the permissibility of attribution that the language allows and what the Arabs know in their language of structural and verbal uses such as metaphor, metonymy, and mental metaphor. In his criteria, Ibn Qutaybah adopted the most eloquent linguistic usage corresponding to the Qur’anic usage corresponding to the speech of the Arabs, in order to justify the use of the Qur’anic style, as was his study. In his standard approach - it is governed by the semantics of the language, as he based the Qur’anic readings by grading them on the laws of grammar, and citing them in eloquent poetry and prose, and he took the principle of conforming the Qur’an to the styles of Arabic in order to determine the differences in the Qur’anic readings in conforming to them and not conforming to them In this way, Ibn Qutaybah contributed something new to the development of rhetoric, particularly in the field of metaphor, where he sent his composition and development in abundance. He traced the different meanings of a single word back to a single origin from which they arose and diverged. Thus, Ibn Qutaybah deserves credit for being the first to trace linguistic terms back to their common semantic origins. I find this approach evident in the topics around which the research revolved, which are:

 A study of deleting the genitive and placing the genitive in its place.

-Applying the verb to two things, which is one of them, and implicating the verb of the other.

-Deleting the answer to the condition for the knowledge of the addressee.

On the way God intended