تفسير : when the prophets answered in the affirmative, they asked the prophets: (and also our forefathers) who died before us?
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : what! and our forefathers too?’ (read a-wa-ābā’unā, [with the wa-] being for supplement, the hamza [a-] for the interrogative; here and in the previous instance, it is used to express ‘remoteness [of probability]’; a variant reading has aw-ābā’unā, as a supplement with aw, and that to which this is supplemented is the [syntactical] locus of inna and its subject).
