A historical and critical study on the proportion of the manuscript of Rasa'il al-Adab by Abu al-Fadl ibn al-Ameed

The manuscripts are among the most important of what is left for us from a legacy that should be revived for its intellectual, litetary and lingual richness. This motivation has prompt us to stand on a number of messages attributed to Ibn Al-Ameed, being a writer of the Fourth Century of the Islamic Calendar, whose name reverberated in the fields of politics and literature, and who left writings and letters that astonish minds and souls. He used assonance, and methods of description and rhetoric, which became a trajectory for the following generations. As for the written manuscripts, on which the two researchers stood, contain structures and sentences similar to the letters of Ibn Al-Ameed, and others dissimilar to them historically and stylistically, which led them to look through historical resources to assertain the names and places mentioned in the literary letters attributed to him. As a result, they concluded that the letters attributed to Ibn Al-Ameed in the manuscript are not his, but of Persian writers who belong to an era not far from ours. However, the two researchers, after going further in the literary and historical resources, could not get the name(s) of the manuscript's writer(s). It would seem that the reason of association was including their own opinions within that of Ibn Al-Ameed to defame his reputation and status.