شَافِعِيَّShāfiʿī (name)

Example sentences

• سَمِعْتُ الشَّافِعِيَّ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى عَنْهُ يَقُولُ

  I heard al-Shafi'i, may Allah be pleased with him, say.

  الشَّافِعِيَّ — al-Shafi'i. This relationship-name is the thing heard, so it sits in the object case marked by a final -a. Arabic case endings, not word order alone, tell you it is the object of 'heard' rather than the doer.

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