سُورَةُ الهمزة
al-Humazah— The Traducer
Notes & justification
It is read with the doubled mīm as an intensive, matching wa-ʿaddadah — the faʿʿala pattern used for a multiplied act, since the sense is that he gathered thing after thing, or gathered from here and from there. And it is read light, the ground being that as the wealth is a single mass the verb was not built on the pattern of multiplicity; a light verb can still carry the sense of abundance, for what the doubled form yields of multiplicity the light form may yield too, serving alike for little and much — or, it is said, the light form suits what is gathered quickly and at once.
…and jammaʿa with the doubling its shāfī-readers (Ḥamzah, al-Kisāʾī) with Ibn ʿĀmir completed.
…and jammaʿa give its doubling (for Khalaf al-ʿĀshir and Abū Jaʿfar per their sigla).
(The couplet continues into the īlāf and kufuʾan rulings of the neighbouring sūrahs.)
Notes & justification
Kasrah on the sīn of the imperfect — the transmitted reading even where analogy (yaḥsabu from ḥasiba) would give fatḥah; see vol. 1, p. 226.
Yaḥsibu with kasrah on the sīn in the imperfect rose high in approval, though no rooted analogy compelled it.
…as with yaḥsabu: fatḥah for Abū Jaʿfar, kasrah for Yaʿqūb and Khalaf al-ʿĀshir per their sigla.
Notes & justification
When al-Kisāʾī stops on al-ḥuṭamah or al-mūqadah he has the imālah as a single transmitted position, because the mīm and the dāl belong to the letters gathered in the mnemonic fa-ḥathat Zaynabu li-dhawdi shams — the letters before hāʾ al-taʾnīth after which his waqf-imālah admits no khulf.
In hāʾ al-taʾnīth at the stop, and in what stands before it, is al-Kisāʾī's imālah — all but ten letters — evenly applied.
The ten are gathered in ḥaqqun ḍighāṭu ʿaṣin khaẓā; and after akhar-letters preceded by a sākin yāʾ it is still inclined.
(The exceptions and the alif-cases follow.)