«ذِكْرُ الْبَلَاغَةِ»
A discussion of eloquence.
Balāghah concerns effective, appropriate communication: the expression should suit its occasion, convey the intended meaning accurately, and achieve its rhetorical purpose. Difficult vocabulary alone does not make prose eloquent, nor does great length automatically demonstrate excellence.
The central debate is whether skill belongs chiefly to the celebrated earlier writers or can also appear in later generations. The episode makes the question concrete by moving from abstract praise of predecessors to the promise of a new literary performance.