الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَearlier scholars

Example sentences

• وَدَلِيلٌ هَذَا أَنَّ إِنْتِفَاعَ النَّاسِ بِتَصَانِيفِ الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ إِنْتِفَاعِهِمْ بِمَا يَسْتَفِيدُونَهُ مِنْ مَشَايِخِهِمْ؛

  The proof of this is that people benefit more from the works of earlier scholars than from what they gain from their teachers.

  الْمُتَقَدِّمِينَ — earlier scholars. A sound plural naming the earlier scholars, and it is the owned half of 'works of the earlier scholars'. As the second noun in that side-by-side possessive it sits in the after-a-possessor case, telling us whose works are meant.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →