صُحْبَتِهِ،for his companionship

Example sentences

• فَحَبَسَ أَبُو بَكْرٍ نَفْسَهُ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ لِصُحْبَتِهِ،

  So Abu Bakr kept his self near the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, for his companionship.

  لِصُحْبَتِهِ — for his companionship. A preposition 'for' heading a noun that has 'his' fused onto its end; the prepositional phrase gives the reason Abu Bakr stayed, 'for his companionship'. The attached -hu (whose companionship) refers to the Prophet, and the noun takes the genitive after the preposition.

  From: The Secret Migration →