خَيْرِيَّةٍa special excellence

Example sentences

• وَمَا خَصَّ بِهِ زَمَانِهِمْ مِنْ خَيْرِيَّةٍ عَلَى الْقُرُونِ،

  and the special excellence with which their time was singled out over the generations,

  خَيْرِيَّةٍ — excellence. The object of the explicative 'of', hence genitive, and indefinite (the -in tanween you can hear). It names the quality their era was distinguished by, an excellence held over the other generations.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →