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كِتَابَةَ writing in Arabic

كِتَابَةَ is how you say “writing” in Arabic.

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Example sentence

وَتَرَكَ البَعْضُ الآخَرُ الْكِتَابَةَ لِدِقَّةِ تَثَبُّتِهِ وَقُوَّةِ حِفْظِهِ

Others abandoned writing because what they retained was precise and their memory was strong.

الْكِتَابَةَ the writing

The definite direct object of 'abandoned', hence accusative (the audible -a ending). With 'al-' it is the specific activity given up, writing, receiving the verb's action directly without a relator.

From How the Companions Preserved Hadith

The English is machine-translated.

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