الْجَمْعِthe collection

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.

  الْجَمْعِ — the collection. The first owning item of 'the process of...'. It is definite ('al-') and stands in the genitive as the completing noun of that 'of' pairing; further items joined by 'and' will extend the chain.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →