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﴿أَوْ جَاءُوكُمْ حَصِرَتْ صُدُورُهُمْ﴾
Or they come to you with their hearts constrained. (Al-Nisāʾ 4:90)

Ḥaṣirat ṣudūruhum begins with a past verb but is tied circumstantially to jāʾūkum. No independent wāw al-ḥāl occurs between the two. An analysis may account for a supplied sense of qad where needed. The primary rhetorical point is the described state accompanying their arrival rather than a second disconnected report.

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Affirmative past without wāw: ḥaṣirat ṣudūruhum

Circumstantial Imperfect and Past Verbs: Rules for Wāw al-Ḥāl

﴿أَوْ جَاءُوكُمْ حَصِرَتْ صُدُورُهُمْ﴾
Or they come to you with their hearts constrained. (Al-Nisāʾ 4:90)

Ḥaṣirat ṣudūruhum begins with a past verb but is tied circumstantially to jāʾūkum. No independent wāw al-ḥāl occurs between the two. An analysis may account for a supplied sense of qad where needed. The primary rhetorical point is the described state accompanying their arrival rather than a second disconnected report.