صَحَابَةُthe Companions

Example sentences

• فَغَدًا الصَّحَابَةُ الْكِرَامُ رِجَالُهُمْ وَنِسَاءُهُمْ يَسْأَلُونَ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ

  So the next morning the noble Companions, both men and women among them, asked the Messenger of God.

  الصَّحَابَةُ — the Companions. Carries al- ('the'), making it specific, and is the doer of the asking that comes later in the sentence — the named subject. The definiteness marks the Companions as a known, particular group. The verb describing what they did follows further on, with this naming the agents.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →