ثَنَاnarrated

Example sentences

• فَأَنَا كَفِيلٌ لَكَ بِأَنَّهُ مَا يَسْمَعُ غَيْرَ ثَنَا قَالَ ثَنَا،

  So I guarantee to you that he hears nothing except "narrated to us, he said, narrated to us."

  ثَنَا — narrated to us. A clipped transmission verb meaning 'narrated to us', a stock phrase from chains of hadith transmission rather than ordinary prose. Here it is quoted as a mere sound he registers, governed by the 'except' into the 'of'-style ending as the one thing heard.

  From: Humility Over Fame →

• فَأَنَا كَفِيلٌ لَكَ بِأَنَّهُ مَا يَسْمَعُ غَيْرَ ثَنَا قَالَ ثَنَا،

  So I guarantee to you that he hears nothing except "narrated to us, he said, narrated to us."

  ثَنَا — narrated to us. The same clipped 'narrated to us' repeated, mimicking how transmission links pile up in a chain. The echo paints the droning formula he hears, the repetition itself the point: just noise, link after link.

  From: Humility Over Fame →