﴿ وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مِن قَبْلِكَ فِى شِيَعِ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ﴾

“AND, INDEED, [O Prophet,] even before thy time did We send [Our apostles] unto communities of old -”

(We verily sent (messengers) before thee) O Muhammad, (among the factions of the men of old) among the groups of old.