Attachment according to Al-Hawfi (died 430 AH) in the books of interpretation

Abstract

       Fakhr al-Din Qabbawa pointed out that the purpose of the phrase is to complement the event that it restricts; to complete the meaning, the restriction may be temporal, locative, or both together. And if it were not for these two restrictions, the event would have remained incomplete in significance. The more restrictions added to the event, the more accurate and closer to perfection (); Attachment “is the moral connection of the phrase to the event, and its adherence to it, as if it were a part of it, whose meaning does not appear without it, and its meaning is not complete without it” (); Therefore, phrase has a close relationship with the factor that completes its significance, and its meaning becomes clear through it, and this means that the phrase must have a factor related to it, as it has no meaning alone. One of the reasons for the difference of grammarians in defining the relative is the presence of more than one factor with which it is correct to relate to the phrase. Thus the tools of the linguistic world and its culture emerge in clarifying the meaning to reach the desired meaning. Ibn Hisham proved the type of the attached, as he said, “They must be related to the act, or what resembles the act, or what begins with what resembles it, or what indicates its meaning” (). One of the most prominent scholars of the fifth century AH, was Abu al-Hasan Ali bin Ibrahim bin Saeed al-Hawfi. He had a great impact on issues of syntax. He is a scholar of grammar and interpretation, and it was said that he was a reciter. He was the instructor and inspirer of many scholars, and he is from the village of Shubra al-Nakhla, from Hawfi in the lands of Egypt. Among the words that the grammarians and commentators differed about in explaining their syntactic meaning and Al-Hawfi had a directive for them as follows: