وَعَاصَرُواthey were contemporaries

Example sentences

• 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 →