عُمُومَتِهِhis general protection

Example sentences

• وَدَخَلَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فِي عُمُومَتِهِ فَتَزَوَّجَهَا وَهُوَ ابْنُ خَمْسٍ وَعِشْرِينَ سَنَةٍ،

  The Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, entered into his general protection and married her when he was twenty-five years old.

  عُمُومَتِهِ — his general protection. A noun ('the body of uncles/general protection') with the suffix '-hi' ('his') fused on as possessor, in the genitive after 'in'. The attached pronoun reaches back to the Messenger, marking whose kin-protection is meant.

  From: The Prophet's Marriage to Khadijah →