Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Al-Waaqia, Ayah 48
أَوَءَابَآؤُنَا ٱلْأَوَّلُونَ
And our forefathers [as well]?"
Common Words
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أوءاباؤنا1x
ٱلأولون1x
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What! And our forefathers too?’ read a-wa-ābā’unā with the wa- being for supplement the hamza a- for the interrogative; here and in the previous instance it is used to express ‘remoteness of probability’; a variant reading has aw-ābā’unā as a supplement with aw and that to which this is supplemented is the syntactical locus of inna and its subject.
Ibn Abbas Commentary
When the prophets answered in the affirmative, they asked the prophets: (And also our forefathers) who died before us?