الْمِصْبَاحِthe lamp

Example sentences

• وَحَكَى غَيْرُ الْمَأْمُونِ أَنَّ السَّجَّانُ فَطِنَ لِإِرْتِفَاقِهِ بِالْمِصْبَاحِ فِي تَسْخِينِ الْمَاءِ،

  And another narrator, not al-Ma'mun, reported that the jailer noticed his staying close by the lamp in heating the water.

  بِالْمِصْبَاحِ — by the lamp. The bi- here means 'by / using', naming the means, and it fuses with a noun carrying al- 'the'. The preposition forces that noun into the genitive form. It specifies what al-Fadl was making use of: the lamp.

  From: A Son Protecting His Father →