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Qurʾān Bukhārī Muslim Nasāʾī Abū Dāwūd Tirmidhī Ibn Mājah Mālik Aḥmad Dārimī Ḥākim Ibn Ḥibbān Ṭabarānī Nasāʾī's Kubrá Bayhaqī al-Luʾluʾ wa-al-Marjān Ibn Rajab's Fifty Riyāḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn Aḥmad's Zuhd Suyūṭī
quran:30:49 –

Although they were, before it was sent down upon them - before that, in despair.  

Though indeed before it was sent down upon them, before that (min qablihi is ˹repeated˺ for emphasis) they had been despondent, despairing of its sending down.
القرآن:٣٠:٤٩ –

وَإِنْ كَانُوا مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يُنَزَّلَ عَلَيْهِمْ مِنْ قَبْلِهِ لَمُبْلِسِينَ  

{وإن} وقد {كانوا من قبل أن يُنزَّل عليهم من قبله} تأكيد {لمبلسين} آيسين من إنزاله.