Sharh Ibn Aqil on Alfiyyat Ibn Malik — Volume 3 (شرح ابن عقيل على ألفية ابن مالك) — Page 239

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وَقَدْ وَرَدَ ذَلِكَ فِي النَّثْرِ قَلِيلاً، حَكَى سِيبَوَيْهِ رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى: «مَرَرْتُ بِرَجُلٍ سَوَاءٍ وَالْعَدَمِ»، بِرَفْعِ «الْعَدَمِ» بِالْعَطْفِ عَلَى الضَّمِيرِ الْمُسْتَتِرِ فِي «سَوَاءٍ».

This usage appears rarely in prose. Sibawayh—may God have mercy upon him—cited the example: 'I passed by a man who is the same as non-existence,' where 'al-'adam' is in the nominative case because it is conjoined to the hidden pronoun within 'sawa'un'.

وَعُلِمَ مِنْ كَلَامِ الْمُصَنِّفِ: أَنَّ الْعَطْفَ عَلَى الضَّمِيرِ الْمَرْفُوعِ الْمُنْفَصِلِ لَا يَحْتَاجُ إِلَى فَصْلٍ، نَحْوُ «زَيْدٌ مَا قَامَ إِلَّا هُوَ وَعَمْرٌو»، وَكَذَلِكَ الضَّمِيرُ الْمَنْصُوبُ الْمُتَّصِلُ وَالْمُنْفَصِلُ، نَحْوُ «زَيْدٌ ضَرَبْتُهُ وَعَمْراً»، وَ«مَا أَكْرَمْتُ إِلَّا إِيَّاكَ وَعَمْراً»،

The author’s words imply that conjunction to a detached nominative pronoun requires no separation, as in: 'Zayd did not stand, only he and 'Amr.' The same applies to attached and detached accusative pronouns, as in: 'Zayd, I struck him and 'Amr,' and 'I honored no one but you and 'Amr.'

وَأَمَّا الضَّمِيرُ الْمَجْرُورُ فَلَا يُعْطَفُ عَلَيْهِ إِلَّا بِإِعَادَةِ الْجَارِّ لَهُ، نَحْوُ «مَرَرْتُ بِكَ وَبِزَيْدٍ»، وَلَا يَجُوزُ «مَرَرْتُ بِكَ وَزَيْدٍ».

Regarding the genitive pronoun, one cannot conjoin to it without repeating the preposition, as in: 'I passed by you and by Zayd.' The phrasing 'I passed by you and Zayd' is impermissible.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (23 verbs · 37 nouns)

• وَرَدَ — to occur
• حَكَى — to narrate
• رَحِمَ — to have mercy
• نَثْر — prose
• قَلِيل — small amount
• رَجُل — man