لِأَنَّهُمْbecause they

Example sentences

• لِأَنَّهُمْ عَايَشُوا الْوَحْيَ وَعَاصَرُوا التَّنْزِيلَ وَوَقَعَتِ الْحَوَادِثُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ،

  Because they lived through the revelation, witnessed its descent, and the events took place before them,

  لِأَنَّهُمْ — because they. A causal subordinator 'because', built from 'li-' plus the heavy 'anna', here with '-hum' = 'they' attached as its subject. It opens a reason-clause and, in fusing the pronoun on, names 'they' as the subject of the explanation that follows.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →