The commentary explicitly makes dhā—not the later makhṣūṣ Zayd—the formal possessor of the ḥāl. Semantically the praised person is Zayd, but syntactically the distinction matters.
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The commentary explicitly makes dhā—not the later makhṣūṣ Zayd—the formal possessor of the ḥāl. Semantically the praised person is Zayd, but syntactically the distinction matters.