سَلَفٍ predecessors in Arabic
سَلَفٍ is how you say “predecessors” in Arabic.
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Example sentence
فأصول دين السلف الإيمان بالله وكتبه ورسله وملائكته،
The fundamentals of the religion of the predecessors were faith in Allah, His books, His messengers, His angels,
السَّلَفِ of the predecessors
This closes the chain — 'religion OF the predecessors' — in the genitive as the final owner. It is a collective name for the earliest Muslim generations, whose creed the sentence is about to list.
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More example sentences
وَطَرِيقُهُمَا بِمَعْزِلٍ عَنْ سُنَنِ السَّلَفِ الصَّالِحِ،
And their path is apart from the practices of the pious predecessors,
السَّلَفِ the predecessors
A noun carrying 'al-' (the), the owning half of the 'of' pairing, where the article's 'l' assimilates into the next sound so the consonant doubles in speech. It is the owner the practices belong to, the predecessors, joined to the prior noun by sheer adjacency.