الْمَدِينَةَMedina

Example sentences

• فَلَمَّا قَدِمَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْمَدِينَةَ اِنْطَلَقَ سَعْدٌ مُعْتَمِرًا،

  When the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, arrived in Medina, Sa'd set out intending to perform umrah.

  الْمَدِينَةَ — Medina. A place-name and the destination of the arriving; as the goal reached it takes the object (accusative) ending, Arabic's way of flagging the noun the verb acted on. It is the city the Messenger came to.

  From: Warning Before the Battle of Badr →

• بَلَغَ عَبْدَ اللَّهِ بْنِ سَلَامٍ مَقْدَمُ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ الْمَدِينَةَ،

  News reached Abdullah ibn Salam that the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, had arrived in the city.

  الْمَدِينَةَ — the city. A place-noun in the object ending, marking the destination of the arriving: into the city. The ending here flags 'where to', so the word answers the goal of the motion without needing a separate 'to'.

  From: What Was Created First →