تَدْوِينِthe recording

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.

  وَالتَّدْوِينِ — and the recording. 'Wa-' joins this as the third and final item in the 'of' chain after 'the process'. It stays in the genitive, definite ('al-'), completing the list, 'collecting, writing and recording', that the process consisted of.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →