What is the definition of a Sifah (attribute), a Lazimah Sifah (necessary attribute), and a Muta'addiyah Sifah (transitive attribute)?
In Arabic, a ṣifah (adjective/epithet) indicates the source (maṣdar) and the doer (fāʿil), and it is divided into four categories: the active participle (ism al-fāʿil), the passive participle (ism al-mafʿūl), the adjectival noun (ṣifah mushabbahah), and the elative form (afʿal al-tafḍīl). Of these categories, only the active participle and the passive participle can be transitive (mutaʿaddī) if they are derived from a transitive verb and certain conditions are met, such as being connected to al (the definite article), or indicating the present (ḥāl) or future (istiqbāl) and preceded by negation, interrogation, or a vocative particle, or if they function as an adjective (naʿt). As for the elative form and the adjectival noun, they are not transitive. A transitive verb is one that can have the object pronoun hāʾ attached to it, unlike an intransitive verb (fīʿl lāzim), which cannot, such as verbs indicating natural disposition or cleanliness.
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