Quraysh— Quraysh

It is read with the hamzah and no yāʾ — ilāf, verbal noun of the three-radical alifa yaʾlafu ilāfan, on the pattern of kataba kitāban; one says alifa r-rajula ilfan wa-ilāfan. It is read with a bare sākin yāʾ and no hamz — līlāf — because once the second hamzah had been changed into a yāʾ, the first was dropped, against regular analogy. And it is read with a kasrah'd hamzah followed by a sākin yāʾ — īlāf, verbal noun of the four-radical ālafa yuʾlifu īlāfan on the pattern of akrama, identical in meaning to alifa. In the second word all the readers [of the seven] have a yāʾ after the hamzah, taking it as the verbal noun of ālaftu. (Ṭalāʾiʿ: 285).

It is read with a kasrah'd hamzah and no yāʾ — like Ibn ʿĀmir's reading in the first word — the verbal noun of the three-radical alifa; and it is read with the hamzah followed by a sākin yāʾ, which is the evident form. [Reading the two words differently is] a combining of the two dialectal forms. (Ṭalāʾiʿ: 285).

A company of the verifiers — the Imām al-Shāṭibī among them — held that the madd has two grades: a longest, for Warsh and Ḥamzah in both the separated and the joined madd, reckoned at three alifs (six beats); and a middle, reckoned at two alifs (four beats), which in the joined madd belongs to Qālūn, Ibn Kathīr, Abū ʿAmr, Ibn ʿĀmir, ʿĀṣim, al-Kisāʾī, Abū Jaʿfar, Yaʿqūb and Khalaf in his own choice, and in the separated madd to Qālūn and Dūrī Abī ʿAmr on their lengthening wajh (four beats) and to Ibn ʿĀmir, ʿĀṣim, al-Kisāʾī and Khalaf in his own right. For Ibn Kathīr, al-Sūsī, Abū Jaʿfar and Yaʿqūb this grade does not arise, their school being qaṣr of the separated madd (two beats).