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الْكُتُبِ the books in Arabic

الْكُتُبِ is how you say “the books” in Arabic.

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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

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More example sentences

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

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