What does the concise reference aṣḥāb al-fīl achieve?
Supplementary Practice 20: Comparative Rhetorical Study of Sūrat al-Humazah and al-Fīl
- Identifying the group by a salient association with a known event
- To classify all unmentioned historical facts as technical ellipsis
- To enumerate every individual instead of identifying the group
- To replace the concise identification with an unrelated description