زَيْدZayd

Example sentences

• عن ابن زيد قال

  From Ibn Zayd, he said

  زَيْدٍ — Zayd. The father's name completing the patronymic. It takes the genitive as the owned term after 'son of', placed directly beside it with no separate 'of'. This second name is what the narrator is the son of.

  From: Stories That Soften the Heart →

• وقال عبد الواحد بن زيد لو رأيت الحسن، لقلت صب على هذا حزن الخلائق؛ من طول تلك الدمعة، وكثرة ذلك النشيج

  Abdul-Wahid ibn Zaid said: If you saw Al-Hasan, you would say: 'The sorrow of all beings has been poured upon him,' because of the length of his weeping and the abundance of his lamentations.

  زَيْدٍ — Zaid. This is the father's name closing the 'son of Zaid' pairing, so it takes the governed ending, and its final marking shows it as an indefinite-pattern proper name. It pins the lineage to a specific father.

  From: Grief of the Prophet's Grandson →

• فَشَاهَدْنَا مَجْلِسًا رَجُلٍ لَيْسَ مِنْ عَمْرِوْ وَلَا زَيْدٍ،

  Then we saw the gathering of a man who was neither Amr nor Zayd.

  زَيْدٍ — Zayd. A proper name in the genitive, governed by the 'from' that still reaches across the 'nor'. It is the second member of the negated pair, completing 'neither Amr nor Zayd'. The shared preposition governs it without being repeated.

  From: Public Preaching →