«الفعل مع المفعول كالفعل مع الفاعل في أن الغرض من ذكره معه إفادة تلبسه به، لا إفادة وقوعه مطلقا»
The relation of a verb to its object is like its relation to its subject: mentioning the complement conveys the action’s connection with that participant, rather than simply asserting that the action occurred.
“Zayd struck ʿAmr” tells us not merely that striking occurred but that Zayd performed it and ʿAmr received it. Here connection (تلبّس) means a grammatical-semantic connection, not physical attachment.
Sometimes “Zayd struck” is all the listener needs. Elsewhere, identifying ʿAmr is central. Both utterances involve the same action but communicate different amounts and kinds of information.