عَوُوهُthey understood 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.

  وعوه — they understood it. 'Wa-' coordinates this verb into the relative clause. The verb is past with a plural 'they' subject and an attached '-hu' = 'it' object pointing back to the 'what': 'and they grasped it', one of the things transmitted.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →