يَقْفُوthey follow him

Example sentences

• فَانْطَلَقَ يَقْفُوهُ حَتَّى دَخَلَ عَلَى النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ،

  So he set out, and they followed him until he entered upon the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, and he entered with him.

  يَقْفُوهُ — they followed him. A present-tense verb of the follow-on-someone's-heels kind with the attached 'him' as object. Coming after 'set out', it paints the trailing as ongoing, the way English overlays one action on another, and the suffix names the one trailed.

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