أَبِيِof Abu

Example sentences

• وَقَالَ إِنَّهَا بِنْتُ أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ،

  And he said, "She is the daughter of Abu Bakr."

  أَبِيِ — of Abu. The front of an 'of' name-pair, owned by the name that follows, so the two sit directly together to mean 'father of Bakr' (Abu Bakr). As the owned front element it carries the genitive ending here because the whole pair itself follows 'daughter of'.

  From: Wives of the Prophet →

• تَمُرُّ كَتِيبَةً كَتِيبَةً عَلَى أَبِيِ سُفْيَانِ،

  Unit after unit passes by Abu Sufyan.

  أَبِيِ — Abu. Literally 'father of', the lead half of the kunya, here held in the genitive by the preposition before it. As the front noun of the kunya it carries no 'the'; the two words together name the man the units passed.

  From: Conquest of Mecca Account →

• وَيَرْعَى عَلَيْهِمَا عَامِرُ بْنُ فُهَيْرَةَ مَوْلَى أَبِيِ بَكْرٍ مِنْحَةً مِنْ غَنَمٍ،

  And Amir ibn Fuhayrah, the freedman of Abu Bakr, tends them with a gift of sheep.

  أَبِيِ — of Abu. The 'father of' title in its owned-and-genitive form here, since it is itself possessed by 'freedman of' before it and possesses 'Bakr' after it. Its ending shifts to the 'of' shape to show it sits inside this chain of names.

  From: The Secret Migration →

• حَدِيثُ عَطَاءِ بْنِ يَسَارٍ عَنْ أَبِيِ الدَّرْدَاءِ قَالَ مُرْسَلٌ أَيْضًا لَا يَصِحُّ،

  The hadith of Ata ibn Yasar from Abu al-Darda, he said, is also mursal and is not authentic.

  أَبِيِ — Abu. A by-name leader ('father of') in the genitive under the preceding 'from', heading a pairing waiting on its own name. It names the source the report runs back to.

  From: Paradise for the Sincere →