How should «ما جاءني زيد بل عمرو» be understood?
ʿAṭf al-Bayān, Badal and Coordination: Clarifying, Reinforcing and Specifying the Subject
- Zayd did not come; rather, ʿAmr did
- Both necessarily came
- Only Zayd’s arrival is established
- ʿAmr is unrelated
ʿAṭf al-Bayān, Badal and Coordination: Clarifying, Reinforcing and Specifying the Subject