حِكَايَاتstories

Example sentences

• اعلم أن كتاب الحلية قد حوى من الأحاديث والحكايات جملة حسنة

  Know that the book 'Adornment' contains a good collection of hadiths and stories.

  وَالحِكَايَاتِ — and the stories. The connector 'and' joined to a definite noun, 'the stories', carrying the attached 'the'. It adds the second category the collection was gathered from, parallel to 'the hadiths'.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →

• وتلك الحكايات ينبغي أن تدخل في ترجمة الحسن لا في ترجمة هشام،

  Those stories should be included in the biography of al-Hasan, not in the biography of Hisham.

  الْحِكَايَاتُ — the stories. A definite noun, 'the stories', carrying the attached 'the', standing in apposition to the 'those' before it to make clear exactly which items are meant. The 'the' marks them as the specific stories already raised.

  From: Gaps in a Collection of Pious Lives →