ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَباً
Thumma atbaAAa sababan
Yusuf Ali
Then followed he (another) way,
Recitation
Pickthall
Then he followed a road
Shakir
Then he followed (another) course.
Hausa — Gumi
Sa´an nan kuma ya bi hanya.
Yoruba
The Yoruba translation exists only as a scanned image.
Tafsir Ibn Kathir
His Journey to the Land of Ya'juj and Ma'juj, and building the Barrier
Allah says of Dhul-Qarnayn:
ثُمَّ أَتْبَعَ سَبَبًا ﴿٩٢﴾
حَتَّى إِذَا بَلَغَ بَيْنَ السَّدَّيْنِ ...
Then he followed (another) way. Until, when he reached between two mountains,
meaning, he traveled from the east of the earth until he reached a place between the two mountains which were next to one another with a valley in between, from which Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) will emerge into the land of the Turks and spread mischief there, destroying crops and people.
تفسير ابن كثير
يقول تعالى مخبرا عن ذي القرنين " ثم أتبع سببا " أي ثم سلك طريقا من مشارق الأرض .
تفسير القرطبي
تقدم معناه أن أتبع واتبع بمعنى أي سلك طريقا ومنازل .
إعراب — grammatical analysis
«ثُمَّ» حرف عطف «أَتْبَعَ» ماض فاعله مستتر «سَبَباً» مفعول به والجملة معطوفة