يَسْأَلُto ask

Example sentences

• فَتَجِدُ أَحَدُهُمْ يَسْأَلُ عَنْ الْأَمْرِ الصَّغِيرِ وَالْكَبِيرِ،

  So you find one of them asking about small and large matters.

  يَسْأَلُ — he asks. A present-tense verb 'asks' carrying a third-person masculine 'he', describing what the singled-out one does. It forms a state-clause hanging off 'one of them' — found in the act of asking. The present keeps the asking ongoing and typical rather than fixed in time.

  From: How the Companions Preserved Hadith →

• فَذَهَبَ بِهِ مَعَهُ لَا يَسْأَلُ وَاحِدٌ مِنْهُمَا صَاحِبَهُ عَنْ شَيْءٍ،

  So he went with him, and neither of the two asked his companion about anything.

  يَسْأَلُ — he asks. A present-shaped verb with its 'he' subject built in, pulled by the preceding negation into a 'did not ask' reading. It carries the act the 'neither of them' phrase denies.

  From: A Stranger Finds the Prophet →