مَزِيدُal-Mazid

Example sentences

• وَقَدْ كَانَ شُعْبَةُ يُحَدِّثُ، فَإِذَا رَأَى الْمَزِيدُ النَّحْوِيُّ قَالَ إِنَّهُ أَبُو زَيْدٍ الْبَسِيطُ

  And indeed Shu'ba used to narrate, and whenever al-Mazid the grammarian saw him, he would say: Indeed he is Abu Zayd al-Basit:

  الْمَزِيدُ — al-Mazid. The al- makes this proper name definite as a fixed title. It stands as the doer of the seeing verb before it, so it serves as the subject of 'saw', identifying who did the looking.

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