عَارِفَknower

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّهُ الْعَارِفَ بِدَقَائِقِ الشَّرْعِ وَحَقَائِقِ التَّنْزِيلِ،

  and that he knew the subtle details of the law and the realities of the revelation,

  الْعَارِفَ — the knower. Carries al- ('the') and is an active participle 'the knower', the predicate of the 'that he ...' clause — what he is said to be. Built from a verb, it names an ongoing quality of knowing. After the emphatic 'that' it appears with the object ending forced by that particle.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →