يَفْعَلُونَthey do

Example sentences

• وَأَنَّ كُلُّ مَا يَفْعَلُونَ وَمَا يَقُولُونَ صَغِيرًا أَوْ كَبِيرًا

  And that everything they do and everything they say, whether small or great,

  يَفْعَلُونَ — they do. A present-tense verb whose ending -una marks a third-person 'they' as the doers — the Companions. The plural subject is carried in that tail, and the present tense gives a general, habitual sense: all they do. It fills out the 'everything that they do' headed by 'all that'.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →