Bayān zaghl al-ʻilm wa-al-ṭalab
The Science of Logic
Medieval al-Dhahabī Arabicrāyat al-Islām wa-ḥāmī ḥawzat al-dīn wa-muḥyī al-Sunnah ʻinda ʻumūm ʻawāmm aṣḥābihi . hādhā mā aqūlu laka (١) .
( ʻilm al-manṭiq )
al-manṭiqa nafʻuhu qalīl wa-ḍararuhu wabīl wa-mā huwa min ʻulūm al-Islām , ammā al-ḥaqq minhu fa-kāmin fī al-nufūs al-zakīyah bi-ʻibārāt gharībah wa-al-bāṭil fa-uhrub minhu fa-innaka tanqaṭiʻu maʻa khaṣmika wa-anta taʻrifu annaka al-muḥiqq wa-taqṭaʻu khaṣmaka wa-anta taʻrifu innaka ʻalá al-khaṭaʼ fa-hiya ʻibārāt wāhiyah wa-muqaddamāt dakkākah nasʼal Allāh taʻālá al-salāmah , wa-in qaraʼtahu li-al-furjah lā li-al-ḥujjah wa-li-al-dunyā
— al-ḥawāshī —
[24] (١) wa-baʻda an naqala al-Shaykh Ṣiddīq Khān al-Qinnawjī hādhā wa-mā sabaqa bi-baʻḍ mukhālafah li-mā hunā qāla : fa-anta tará kalāmahu fī al-Shaykh fa-zinhu bi-ʻaqlika fa-innahu ẓāhir al-tanāquḍ wa-Allāh aʻlam bi-al-sarāʼir h . kamā fī majmūʻ ( al-Radd al-wāfir ) fī ṣ 126 min al-ṭabʻah al-Farajīyah taʻlīqan ʻalá qawl al-Ṣafī al-Bukhārī fī ( al-Qawl al-jalī ) : yuʻāriḍuhu mā dhakara huwa nafsuhu fī ( Zaghal al-ʻilm ) ah . wa-in waqaʻa fī tilka al-ṭabʻah hākadhā ( Rajal al-ʻilm ) wa-wuḍiʻa raqm al-taʻlīq fī ghayr maḥallihi . wa-al-wāqiʻ anna ʻiddah min al-ʻulamāʼ kānū asraʻū fī iṭrāʼ Ibn Taymīyah wa-taḥazzabū lahu fī bādiʼ al-amr thumma ṣaʻuba ʻalayhim al-tarājuʻ ʻan qawlihim fīhi ilá an tawaghghala fī mufradātihi al-maʻrūfah fa-takhallaw ʻanhu wāḥidan baʻda wāḥid ḥattá al-Jalāl al-Qazwīnī wa-al-Qūnawī wa-al-Jarīrī wa-ghayruhum wa-ʻīla iṣṭibāruhum maʻahu bal inḥarafa al-Dhahabī ʻanhu ayḍan baʻḍ inḥirāf baʻda an saʻá muddah li-takhfīf waṭʼat aḍdādihi naḥwahu wa-intishālihi mimmā tawarraṭa fīhi saʻyan bālighan kamā lā yakhfá ʻalá man darasa ḥayātahu ʻafā Allāh ʻammā salafa .