Grammar term · Nahw · syntax
مَفْعُول مَعَهُ
maf'ul ma'ah
Object of accompaniment
Nahw · syntaxSyntactic roleadvanced term6+ in the Qur'an
In one line
The object of accompaniment — a noun in nasb after و meaning “along with.”
Classical definition
المَفْعُولُ مَعَهُ هُوَ الاسْمُ المَنْصُوبُ الَّذِي يُذْكَرُ لِبَيَانِ مَنْ فُعِلَ مَعَهُ الفِعْلُ.
“It is the nasb-state noun mentioned to show with whom (or what) the action was done.”
(الآجرّومية)
Key words in the Arabic
لِبَيَانِ مَنْ فُعِلَ مَعَهُto show the one along with whom it was done
Understand it
Here و stops meaning “and” and starts meaning “along with”: سِرْتُ وَالنِّيلَ — “I walked along the Nile” (not: the Nile walked too). The nasb ending on the noun after و is the giveaway: a true “and” would copy the first word's case; “along with” takes nasb.
How to spot it
Recognition test
A noun in nasb after a و that means “together with” (not “and”) — e.g. “I walked along with the river.”
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