سَلَفِ early predecessors in Arabic
سَلَفِ is how you say “early predecessors” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
كَمَا قَالَ بَعْضُ السَّلَفِ عَلَيْكَ بِطَرِيقِ الْحَقِّ،
As some of the early predecessors said, adhere to the path of truth.
السَّلَفِ the early predecessors
This noun completes the 'of' pairing with 'some' before it: 'some of the predecessors'. As the owned half it takes the genitive ending, and its definite al- (assimilating into the sun letter) makes it the known early generations. The two nouns side by side carry the 'of' with no separate word.
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More example sentences
قَالَ بَعْضُ السَّلَفِ
Some of the pious predecessors said:
السَّلَفِ the pious predecessors
This noun is the owning second half of the 'of' pairing, 'some of the pious predecessors', and so takes the genitive shape. Bound to the head 'some', it supplies whose subset is meant, the partitive completed with no separate word for 'of'.