Arabic vocabulary
اِبْنِ is how you say “son of” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
وَعِنْدَ صَحِيحِ الْبُخَارِيِّ عَنْ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسِ
And in Sahih al-Bukhari, on the authority of Ibn Abbas.
اِبْنِ — son of. The 'son of' link beginning a patronymic, joining narrator to father into one lineage label. It wears the after-preposition ending from the citation word and cannot stand alone. Read it with the surrounding names as a single identification.
From: Trust and Piety →وَهُوَ اِسْمُ اِبْنِ صَيَّادٍ ـ هَذَا مُحَمَّدٌ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
And he is called Ibn Sayyad — this is Muhammad, may God send blessings upon him and grant him peace.
اِبْنِ — son of. The 'son of' link inside the 'name of' phrase, itself heading a further pairing with the next name. Held in the genitive because it completes 'name of', it shows one possessive pairing nested inside another.
From: A Night with the Companions →عَنْ اِبْنِ عَبَّاسٍ ـ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُمَا ـ قَالَ
Ibn Abbas, may Allah be pleased with them both, said:
اِبْنِ — son of. Means 'son of', linking the bearer to his father, and here opens the source-name of the report. As the front half of the pairing it leans on the father-name behind it, with the two set directly side by side for 'son of'.
From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →فَقَالَ لَهُ الرُّكْنُ أَيْنَ أَنْتَ مِنْ اِبْنِ الْجَوْزِيِ؟
The Pillar said to him, "Where do you stand regarding the son of al-Jawzi?"
اِبْنِ — son of. A noun 'son (of)' beginning a name-construct in the genitive after the preposition, the first half of an 'of' name-pair waiting for the following name. It gives up its own article to that name.
From: An Exiled Scholar's Trials →بَلَغَنِي أَنَّهُ قِيلَ لِعِيسَى اِبْنِ مَرْيَمِ عَلَيْهِ السَّلَامُ
I was informed that it was said to Jesus, son of Mary, peace be upon him:
اِبْنِ — son of. A 'son of' word forming the head of an ownership pair with the name after it, in the 'of' (genitive) form to fit the construction. As pair-leader it drops its own 'the' and leans on the following name. It builds the patronymic of the figure just addressed.
From: On Foolishness and Wisdom →فِي أَنْ لَمْ يُعْطِ إِبْلِيسُ اِثْنَيْنِ مِنْ اِبْنِ آدَمٍ وَأَعْطَى أَرْبَعَةً
That Iblis was not given two of the sons of Adam but was given four.
ابْنِ — son of. The noun 'son', head of a possessive pairing with 'Adam' that follows, giving 'son of Adam'. As the head it stays bare of 'the' and, sitting after the partitive preposition, takes the 'of' (genitive) ending.
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