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امْرَأً وَنَفْسَهُ
Translation: Leave a person to himself.
امْرَأً: accusative object with an understood imperative such as “leave”.
وَ: linking wāw expressing the accompanying circumstance; accounts may differ in precise coordination/comitative analysis.
نَفْسَهُ: accusative noun, with -hu as possessive second term of iḍāfa; idiomatically “leave the person to himself”.

This is an attested idiom; the understood verb explains its sense. Its finer syntactic treatment should not be flattened into a single undisputed account.

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A Man and His Own Affairs

Al-Mafʿūl Bih: Definition, Fronting and Omission

امْرَأً وَنَفْسَهُ
Translation: Leave a person to himself.
امْرَأً: accusative object with an understood imperative such as “leave”.
وَ: linking wāw expressing the accompanying circumstance; accounts may differ in precise coordination/comitative analysis.
نَفْسَهُ: accusative noun, with -hu as possessive second term of iḍāfa; idiomatically “leave the person to himself”.

This is an attested idiom; the understood verb explains its sense. Its finer syntactic treatment should not be flattened into a single undisputed account.