حَفِظُوهُthey memorized it

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.

  وَحَفِظُوهُ — and they memorized it. 'Wa-' adds a parallel action in the same relative clause. The verb is past with a 'they' subject and an attached '-hu' = 'it' object referring to the same 'what': 'and they memorised it'.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →