حَمْزَةHamza

Example sentences

• مثل ما روي عن أبي حمزة الصوفي أنه وقع في بئر فجاء رجلان فَطمّاها،

  Like the story narrated about Abu Hamza al-Sufi, who fell into a well, and then two men came and filled it up.

  حَمْزَةَ — Hamza. This name closes the 'father of Hamza' pairing, so it takes the governed ending, and its final marking shows it as an indefinite-pattern proper name. It completes the man's courtesy-name.

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• قلت ولا التفات إلى أبي حمزة في حكايته فجاء أسد فأخرجني ،

  I said, there is no attention to Abu Hamza in his story where a lion came and rescued me,

  حَمْزَةَ — Hamza. The name completing the 'father of' title before it, so the two read as one by-name. Its ending shows it is the owned half of that pairing and that the whole title sits as the object of the earlier preposition.

  From: Trust in God →