LessonsModes of Clarification: Necessity, Circumstance, Conjunction and ReplacementQuiz

«أو مائة وقفيز حنطة»
“Or one hundred and a qafiz of wheat.”

A qafiz is a unit of measure, and hintah means wheat. When the unspecified “one hundred” is followed by “and a qafiz of wheat,” the named measured commodity can identify what the hundred denotes.

On this approach the admission comprises 100 qafiz of wheat plus one more qafiz, totaling 101 qafiz of wheat, rather than 100 unidentified units plus a separate wheat measure.

Although coinage and a wheat measure differ materially, the two examples are linked by the fact that both concern a measured or weighed thing whose kind can intelligibly determine a debt of stated quantity.

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Wheat measure joined to an unspecified hundred

Modes of Clarification: Necessity, Circumstance, Conjunction and Replacement

«أو مائة وقفيز حنطة»
“Or one hundred and a qafiz of wheat.”

A qafiz is a unit of measure, and hintah means wheat. When the unspecified “one hundred” is followed by “and a qafiz of wheat,” the named measured commodity can identify what the hundred denotes.

On this approach the admission comprises 100 qafiz of wheat plus one more qafiz, totaling 101 qafiz of wheat, rather than 100 unidentified units plus a separate wheat measure.

Although coinage and a wheat measure differ materially, the two examples are linked by the fact that both concern a measured or weighed thing whose kind can intelligibly determine a debt of stated quantity.