﴿ بِأَىِّ ذَنۢبٍۢ قُتِلَتْ ﴾

“for what crime she had been slain,”

for what sin she was slain sa’alat ‘asks’ a variant reading has su’ilat ‘she is asked’ narrating the address directed to her to which she then responds by saying ‘I was slain without having committed any sin’;