عِيَاضٍIyad

Example sentences

• وَكَانَ الْفُضَيْلُ بْنُ عِيَاضٍ يَقُولُ إِنِّي لَأَعْصِيَ اللَّهَ، فَأَعْرِفُ ذَلِكَ فِي خَلْقِ دَابَّتِي وَجَارِيَتِي

  Al-Fudayl ibn Iyad used to say: I do disobey God, and I perceive that in the nature of my mount and my female servant.

  عِيَاضٍ — Iyad. The father's name completing the 'son of...' link, so it stands in the 'of'-style ending as the second member of that small chain. Arabic builds the patronymic by setting the names directly side by side, the case ending marking this one as the parent. It identifies whose son the figure is.

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