Az-Zukhruf Verse 45

Ask ˹the followers of˺ the messengers that We already sent before you if We ˹ever˺ appointed ˹other˺ gods to be worshipped besides the Most Compassionate.

Ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you: Did We appoint gods to be worshiped besides the Most Compassionate?

Ask those of Our Messengers We sent before thee: Have We appointed, apart from the All-merciful, gods to be served?

Ask the prophets We sent before you: ‘Did We ever appoint any gods to be worshipped besides the Lord of Mercy?’

And ask thou Our apostles whom We sent before thee: appointed We gods, beside the Compassionate, to be worshipped?

And question thou our messengers whom We sent before thee; did We appoint any deities other than (Allah) Most Gracious, to be worshipped?

Ask all Our Messengers whom We sent before you whether We had appointed any deities beside the Merciful One to be worshipped.

Inquire of apostles We had sent before you if We appointed gods to be worshipped other than Ar-Rahman.

And ask them – did any of the Noble Messengers We sent before you, appoint any other Gods except the Most Gracious, whom they used to worship?

Ask those of Our apostles We have sent before you: Did We set up any gods to be worshipped besides the All-beneficent?

And ask (their true followers about) those of Our Messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever enable deities to be worshipped apart from the All-Merciful?

And ask those of Our Messenger whom We sent before you whether We (ever) appointed any deities to be worshipped apart from the Most Gracious (God).

And ask/question whom We sent from before you from Our messengers, did We make/create from other than the merciful gods (that) they are being worshipped?

And ask them - did any of the Noble Messengers We sent before you, appoint any other Gods except the Most Gracious, whom they used to worship?

And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent?

And ask (O Muhammad SAW) those of Our Messengers whom We sent before you: "Did We ever appoint aliha (gods) to be worshipped besides the Most Beneficent (Allah)?"

And surely it is a reminder for thee and thy people, and you will be questioned.

And ask those of Our apostles whom We sent before you: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent Allah?

And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before thee: Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped beside the Beneficent?

You can ask Our Messengers whom We sent before you if We had commanded them to worship other gods besides the Beneficent God?"

Ask Our Messengers whom We sent before you if We have ever made gods, other than the Merciful, to be worshipped.

And ask whom We sent before you of Our Messengers: "Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Most Gracious"

Ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you, "Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Beneficent One?"

Ask those of Our messengers We sent before you: “Did We appoint gods besides the Most Gracious to be worshiped?”

And ask those of Our messengers whom We sent before you; Did We [ever] appoint, besides the Compassionate One, that is to say, [any] other than Him, gods to be worshipped? It is said that this is to be understood literally, in other words, that God gathered for him all the messengers on the Night [of the] Journey; but it is also said that this meant [that he should ask] any communities belonging to either of the two Peoples of the Scripture. According to one of the two opinions, he never asked [anyone] since the point of this command to ask is to affirm to the idolaters of Quraysh that no messenger or scripture ever came from God with the command to worship [any] other than God.

And ask whom We sent before you of Our Messengers;"Did We ever appoint gods to be worshipped besides the Most Gracious?"

means, `all the Messengers called their people to the same as that to which you are calling mankind, namely the worship of Allah Alone with no partner or associate, and they forbade the worship of idols and false gods.'

This is like the Ayah;

وَلَقَدْ بَعَثْنَا فِى كُلِّ أُمَّةٍ رَّسُولاً أَنِ اعْبُدُواْ اللَّهَ وَاجْتَنِبُواْ الْطَّـغُوتَ

And verily, We have sent among every Ummah (nation) a Messenger (proclaiming);"Worship Allah, and avoid all false deities." (16;36)

Mujahid said that Abdullah bin Mas`ud recited it;
وَاسْأَلْ الَّذِينَ أَرْسَلْنَا إِ لَيْهِمْ قَبْلِكَ مِن رُّسُلِنَا
(And ask those whom We sent before you of Our Messengers).

This was narrated by Qatadah, Ad-Dahhak and As-Suddi from Ibn Mas`ud, may Allah be pleased with him.

Yet this appears to be an explanation rather than an alternate version of recitation. And Allah knows best