بِنْتٌdaughter

Example sentences

• لِأَنَّ بِنْتُهُ فَاطِمَةُ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهَا كَانَتْ تَحْتَهُ

  Because his daughter Fatima, may Allah be pleased with her, was married to him.

  بِنْتُهُ — his daughter. A noun, 'daughter', with a 'his' tail pointing back to Ali; it is the subject of the reason clause but takes the object-like case under the 'because' particle before it. The tail tracks the owner across the sentence.

  From: Sermons, Wit, and Sorrow →

• وَخَدِيْجَةُ يَوْمَئِذٍ بِنْتٌ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةٍ

  Khadijah was then forty years old.

  بِنْتٌ — daughter of. An indefinite noun ('daughter of') used idiomatically with a number to state age, parallel to the earlier 'son of'. It serves as the predicate telling her age and heads an 'of' pairing with the number that follows.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →