تَوَقَّفُوا لَيْلًا، ثُمَّ سَارُوا صَبَاحًا.
They stopped for the night and then traveled in the morning.
Thumma expresses order with an interval. In this narrative it fits a night's halt followed by departure the next morning.
Fa-sārū would normally suggest closer succession; wa-sārū would merely join the propositions. The particles must be read together with temporal expressions such as laylan and ṣabāḥan; otherwise the implied timeline changes.
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Supplementary Practice 15: Caravan Reports, Attribution and the Limits of Inference
تَوَقَّفُوا لَيْلًا، ثُمَّ سَارُوا صَبَاحًا.
They stopped for the night and then traveled in the morning.
Thumma expresses order with an interval. In this narrative it fits a night's halt followed by departure the next morning.
Fa-sārū would normally suggest closer succession; wa-sārū would merely join the propositions. The particles must be read together with temporal expressions such as laylan and ṣabāḥan; otherwise the implied timeline changes.