Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Waaqia, Ayah 13

ثُلَّةٌۭ مِّنَ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

A [large] company of the former peoples

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Ibn Abbas Commentary

(A multitude of those of old) a group of people from the earlier nations before the community of Muhammad (pbuh)

Scholars offer complementary perspectives

a multitude from the former generations thullatun mina’l-awwalīna the subject that is to say a group of individuals from communities of old

The young should salute the old, the one who is passing by should salute the one who is sitting, and a small company should salute a large one.