Avoid grammatical errors in speech and writing, for a lack of grammatical errors is honourable, shows pure literary taste, appreciation of elegant meanings due to sound structure (speech and writing). On the authority of Umar that he said: "Learn Arabic (grammer), for indeed it increases honour." There are also Salaf used to hit there children if they made grammatical errors.
Al-Khateeb Al-Baghdaadi narrated that Ar-Rahbee said: "I heard someof our peers say: 'If a person who makes grammatical errors writes from another person like him, and he writes from another person like him, the hadeeth will end up in Persian!'''
Imam Al-Mubarad said in one of his poems:
"Grammar straightens the tongue that speaks ungrammatical language,
And you honour the person if he does not make grammatical errors,
If you seek the greastest knowledge,
Then the greatest of it is that which straightens the tongue."
Therefore, do not pay attention to what Al-Qaasim Ibn Mukhaymarah said: "Learning grammer begins with absolute engagement and ends with transgression", nor the saying of Bishr Al-Haafi who, when it was said to him, "Learn grammar." Replied, "I will stray." So it was said to him, "Say: Zayd struck Amr (grammatically)," so he replied, "O my brother! Why did he strike him?" So he said, "O Aboo Nasr! He did not strike him but this is an established principle." So Bishr said to him, "The beginning of this knowledge is based upon lies, there is no need for it."
Source: The etiquette of seeking knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Aboo Zayd, P89
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