Grammarians sometimes test badal by considering the verb or other governor as if repeated with the substitute.
جَاءَنِي أَخُوكَ زَيْدٌ.
“Your brother, namely Zayd, came to me.”
Removing «أَخُوكَ» leaves a workable core: «جَاءَنِي زَيْدٌ». This test helps explain the book’s poetic exception, without automatically turning all explanatory followers into badal.
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ʿAṭf al-Bayān: Definition, Examples, and Contrast with Badal
Grammarians sometimes test badal by considering the verb or other governor as if repeated with the substitute.
جَاءَنِي أَخُوكَ زَيْدٌ.
“Your brother, namely Zayd, came to me.”
Removing «أَخُوكَ» leaves a workable core: «جَاءَنِي زَيْدٌ». This test helps explain the book’s poetic exception, without automatically turning all explanatory followers into badal.