Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Waaqia, Ayah 47
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And they used to say ‘What! When we are dead and have become dust and bones shall we indeed be resurrected? in both instances a-idhā and a-innā the two hamzas may be read either by pronouncing them fully or by not pronouncing the second and in either case inserting an intervening alif.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(And they used to say) in the life of the world: (When we are dead and have come) scattered (dust and) rotten (bones, shall we then, forsooth, be raised again) shall we then be given life again,