«وَكَمْ ذُدْتُ عَنِّي مِنْ تَحَامُلِ حَادِثٍ وَسَوْرَةِ أَيَّامٍ حَزَزْنَ إِلَى الْعَظْمِ»
How often I repelled crushing misfortunes and violent days that seemed to cut to the bone.
The expression “ḥazazna ilā al-ʿaẓm” stresses the ultimate extent of the imagined injury: down to the bone. Introducing an object such as “flesh” could distract from that culmination by raising an unintended intermediate image.
A verbal complement can therefore be omitted or retained to prevent a misleading implication. The relevant image and its limit, not the mere presence of an object slot, guide the reading.