Letters from rhetoricians

Al-Asma'i said: It was said to Ibn al-Muqaffa: Who disciplined you? He said: Myself; If I see something good from someone else, I go to it, and if I see something ugly, I refuse it. Issa bin Ali invited him to lunch and said: May God bless the prince, I am not a generous person every day. He said: Why? He said: Because I am sick, and sickness is an ugly neighbourhood, preventing me from being with free people. And from his words: I drank from the sermon deliberately and did not control it; Then it overflowed and overflowed, so it is neither a system nor anything other than speech. What affected him was that he was asked: What is eloquence? He said: Which if an ignorant person hears it, he will think that he will do something good like it. Ishaq bin Hassan bin Fuha said that he said: No one has ever interpreted eloquence the way Ibn al-Muqaffa did. He was asked: What is rhetoric? He said: Rhetoric is a name that brings together meanings that take place in many ways, some of which occur in silence, some of which occur in listening, some of which occur in signaling, some of which occur in speech, some of which occur in protest, some of which occur as a response, and some of which are a beginning. Some of them are poetry, some are sajda and sermons, and some are letters. In general, among these chapters there is revelation and reference to the meaning, and brevity is eloquence.