يُرْوَىnarrated

Example sentences

• كما ملأ ترجمة هشام بن حسان بما يروى عن الحسن،

  As he filled the biography of Hisham ibn Hassan with what is narrated by al-Hasan,

  يُرْوَى — is narrated. This is the passive: the subject is what gets narrated, not anyone narrating, marked by the verb's inner vowel shape. So it reads 'is narrated', describing the material used to fill the entry.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →

• وكذلك ملأ ترجمة جعفر بن سليمان بما يروى عن مالك بن دينار ونظرائه،

  Similarly, he filled the biography of Ja'far ibn Suleiman with what is narrated from Malik ibn Dinar and his peers,

  يُرْوَى — is narrated. This is the passive: the subject is what gets narrated, not anyone narrating, marked by the verb's inner vowel shape. So it reads 'is narrated', naming the borrowed material.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →