«لِي مِنْ فُلَانٍ صَدِيقٌ حَمِيمٌ»
From that person, I have an intimate friend, as though drawn out of him.
The particle min suggests an imagined second friend abstracted from the original person, whose actual friendship is being praised. A literal reading that posits two people misses the rhetoric.
Tajrid can also use fi, baʾ, or self-address. The common purpose is to intensify the perceived perfection of a quality.
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Semantic Embellishments II: Gathering, Differentiation, Division, Hyperbole, and Further Devices
«لِي مِنْ فُلَانٍ صَدِيقٌ حَمِيمٌ»
From that person, I have an intimate friend, as though drawn out of him.
The particle min suggests an imagined second friend abstracted from the original person, whose actual friendship is being praised. A literal reading that posits two people misses the rhetoric.
Tajrid can also use fi, baʾ, or self-address. The common purpose is to intensify the perceived perfection of a quality.