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وَعَاصَرُوا they were contemporaries in Arabic

وَعَاصَرُوا is how you say “they were contemporaries” in Arabic.

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لِأَنَّهُمْ عَايَشُوا الْوَحْيَ وَعَاصَرُوا التَّنْزِيلَ وَوَقَعَتِ الْحَوَادِثُ بَيْنَ أَيْدِيهِمْ،

Because they lived through the revelation, witnessed its descent, and the events took place before them,

وَعَاصَرُوا and they were contemporaries

'Wa-' adds a second parallel action. The verb is past in the 'be contemporary with' pattern, plural 'they' subject built in; it pairs the group's lifetime with the sending-down named next, reinforcing that they were eyewitnesses to it.

From How the Companions Preserved Hadith

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