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كِتَابَةِ the writing in Arabic

كِتَابَةِ is how you say “the writing” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

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.

وَالْكِتَابَةِ and the writing

'Wa-' joins this as the second item in the 'of' chain after 'the process'. Being part of that possessive pairing it stays in the genitive, definite ('al-'), naming writing alongside collecting.

From How the Companions Preserved Hadith

The English is machine-translated.

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