﴿ قَٰلَ كَمْ لَبِثْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ عَدَدَ سِنِينَ ﴾

“[And] He will ask [the doomed]: “What number of years have you spent on earth?””

He exalted be He will say to them by the tongue of a Keeper of Hell a variant reading for qāla ‘He will say’ has qul ‘say’ ‘How long did you tarry in the earth in this world and in your graves in years?’ ‘adada sinīna is a specification.