What strongly supports supplying “ahl” in “wa-sʾali al-qaryah” (Yūsuf 12:82)?

Supplementary Practice 7: Editing Expressions, Weighing Context and Rhetorical Critique

• Every place name necessarily deletes “ahl”
• The word “ahl” is explicitly written in this phrase
• Inhabitants can answer questions; buildings cannot
• The morphological pattern alone demands it