«أكرمتُ» reports that honoring occurred. In «أكرمتُ إكرامَ أهلِ الحسبِ», a cognate accusative specifies the kind of honoring; it adds information about the act rather than simply repeating it.
The relevant question is “What kind of act was performed?” The absolute object may also intensify a verb in other settings, but its role here is differentiation of the action’s type.
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Al-Itlaq wa al-Taqyid: Rhetorical Functions of Unrestricted and Qualified Expression
«أكرمتُ» reports that honoring occurred. In «أكرمتُ إكرامَ أهلِ الحسبِ», a cognate accusative specifies the kind of honoring; it adds information about the act rather than simply repeating it.
The relevant question is “What kind of act was performed?” The absolute object may also intensify a verb in other settings, but its role here is differentiation of the action’s type.