The book uses “ghulām ḥasan” as an example of ambiguity between grammatical relationships and description.
«غلامُ حَسَنٍ» — the servant of a person named Ḥasan, an iḍāfah construction.
«غلامٌ حَسَنٌ» — a handsome boy or servant, a noun with an adjective.
The first expresses a relation to a named person; the second attributes a quality. They cannot be treated as making the same claim. Case endings and construction can change the proposition being assessed.
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Causes of Error: Misunderstanding and Verbal Ambiguities
The book uses “ghulām ḥasan” as an example of ambiguity between grammatical relationships and description.
«غلامُ حَسَنٍ» — the servant of a person named Ḥasan, an iḍāfah construction.
«غلامٌ حَسَنٌ» — a handsome boy or servant, a noun with an adjective.
The first expresses a relation to a named person; the second attributes a quality. They cannot be treated as making the same claim. Case endings and construction can change the proposition being assessed.