LessonsPoetic Borrowing: Common Meanings, Recognizable Taking, Naskh and IntihalQuiz

A report concerning ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and the poet Maʿn ibn Aws illustrates a dispute over verses and their attribution.

إذا أنت لم تنصف أخاك
If you do not deal justly with your brother.

The line begins a cited poetic example of taking earlier verse together with its verbal composition. The report functions here as a transmitted literary illustration, not as independent adjudication of an historical legal case.

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A reported exchange about attribution

Poetic Borrowing: Common Meanings, Recognizable Taking, Naskh and Intihal

A report concerning ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and the poet Maʿn ibn Aws illustrates a dispute over verses and their attribution.

إذا أنت لم تنصف أخاك
If you do not deal justly with your brother.

The line begins a cited poetic example of taking earlier verse together with its verbal composition. The report functions here as a transmitted literary illustration, not as independent adjudication of an historical legal case.