كَتَبُوهُthey wrote 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.

  كَتَبُوهُ — they wrote it. A past verb with a plural 'they' subject and an attached '-hu' = 'it' object pointing to this second 'what': 'they wrote it'. One word carries subject, verb and object, closing the final relative clause.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →