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Surah Al-Baqarah — 2:133

أَمْ كُنتُمْ شُهَدَآءَ إِذْ حَضَرَ يَعْقُوبَ ٱلْمَوْتُ إِذْ قَالَ لِبَنِيهِ مَا تَعْبُدُونَ مِنۢ بَعْدِى قَالُوا۟ نَعْبُدُ إِلَـٰهَكَ وَإِلَـٰهَ ءَابَآئِكَ إِبْرَٰهِـۧمَ وَإِسْمَـٰعِيلَ وَإِسْحَـٰقَ إِلَـٰهًا وَٰحِدًا وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ مُسْلِمُونَ

Am kuntum shuhadaaa'a iz hadara Ya'qoobal mawtu iz qaala libaneehi maa ta'budoona mim ba'dee qaaloo na'budu ilaahaka wa ilaaha aabaaa'ika Ibraaheema wa Ismaa'eela wa Ishaaqa Ilaahanw waahidanw wa nahnu lahoo muslimoon

Yoksa Yakub can verirken sizler yanında mı idiniz? O, oğullarına: "Benden sonra kime kulluk edeceksiniz?" diye sormuştu; Onlar da: "Senin Tanrına ve ataların İbrahim, İsmail, İshak'ın Tanrısı olan tek Tanrıya kulluk edeceğiz, bizler O'na teslim olmuşuzdur" demişlerdi.

Or were you witnesses when death came to Yaqub, when he said to his sons, "What will you worship after me?" They said, "We will worship your God and the God of your fathers — Ibrahim, Ismail, and Ishaq — one God, and to him we surrender."

Reflection

An argument about who inherits Ibrahim is answered by asking whether the claimants were in the room. The sons then list Ismail among their father's fathers, although Yaqub descends through Ishaq and Ismail is his uncle, which is the passage classical usage cites for aba' covering a wider line than fathers strictly. What the sons profess at the end is a verb, and the community names arrive two verses later from the other side of the argument.

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