بِدَوْرِهِمْin their turn

Example sentences

• وَبَلَّغُوا هُمْ بِدَوْرِهِمْ مَا وَعَوُوهُ وَحَفِظُوهُ وَمَا كَتَبُوهُ

  And they, in their turn, transmitted what they had understood and memorized and what they had written.

  بدورهم — in their turn. The relator 'bi-' plus a noun 'turn/role' plus the possessor '-hum' = 'their', all in one word: 'in their turn'. The relator marks the manner of the action and governs the noun into the genitive; the idiom means each did their part in sequence.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →