Exemplifications in the Dictionary of al-Ain by Khalil Ibn Ahmad al-Farāhidi: With a Focus on Poetic Instance

The book of Al-ain Khalil ibn Ahmad Farāhidi (100- 170 AH) is one of the most important sources of the Islamic period. Exploring the citations of this book is important especially in it's poetie instances. The purpose of this research is to assess the validity of this book in referring to the texts, especially the first religious texts. . Analytical statistical analysis of this research shows that Farahidi in collecting this book and describing its words, used a variety of Quran, poetry and hadith. This study has sought to accomplish such an objective. The statistical and content analyses revealed that despite its strong points such as comprehensive documentations, profound Quranic influences, reliance on the element of time (history) in bringing poetic examples, etc. the dictionary also suffers from some pitfalls such as lack of enough attention to the verification of the hadiths, frequent selection of poetic examples from the poetry of the Najd tribes, with fewer examples chosen from the poetry of tribes in Mecca and Medina, where the revelations to the prophet of Islam took place.