قَالَ صَاحِبُهُ: فَلِمَ ذَكَرْتَ اسْمَ الْقَاضِي؟ قَالَ: كَانَ اسْمُهُ عَلَى الْغِلَافِ.
His colleague asked: Why did you mention the judge's name? He answered: His name was on the cover.
The reply follows the expressed question without being merely another coordinated report. If the prior wording had only been dhakartu isma al-qāḍī, the later kāna ismuhu ʿalā al-ghilāf could function as an explanatory resumption answering the implied 'why?'.
The explanation gives a reason for mentioning a name, not conclusive proof that the document belongs to the named person. Discourse relation and evidentiary validity remain separate analytical tasks.