الْكُتُبِthe books

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّهُ لَا بُدَّ مِنْ تَقْيِيدِ السَّنَةِ وَجَمْعِهَا فِي الْكُتُبِ فَتَمَّتْ عَمَلِيَّةُ الْجَمْعِ وَالْكِتَابَةِ وَالتَّدْوِينِ

  And that it was necessary to fix the prophetic practice and to collect it in books; thus the process of collecting, writing, and recording was completed.

  الْكُتُبِ — the books. The definite plural object of 'in', hence genitive after that relator. With 'al-' it names the specific books into which the practice was collected.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• وَمَا أَشْبَعَ مِنْ مُطَالَعَةِ الْكُتُبِ،

  And reading books did not satisfy me.

  الْكُتُبِ — the books. A definite plural noun completing 'the reading of the books'. As the owned member of that 'of' pairing it takes the genitive, and its al- makes the whole phrase a specific reading of specific books. It is what the studying is studying.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →