أَحْمَسِيَّةal-Hamsiyyah

Example sentences

• كما قال أبو بكر الصديق ﵁ للأحمسية لما سألته ما بقاؤنا على هذا الأمر؟

  As Abu Bakr al-Siddiq said to al-Hamsiyyah when she asked him: 'What will sustain us in this matter?'

  لِلْأَحْمَسِيَّةِ — to al-Hamsiyyah. A bundle of li- (to / addressed to), 'the' making the noun definite, and the name itself. The li- marks the person spoken to and forces the genitive ending; it names the woman Abu Bakr addressed.

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