سُورَةُ الملك
al-Mulk— The Sovereignty
Notes & justification
The poems on تَفَٰوُت: the Shāṭibiyyah gives the short form with the doubled wāw — تَفَوُّت — to the readers coded شَقَّ (Ḥamzah and al-Kisāʾī); the Durrah line keeps تَفَاوُت, with the alif, for its reader coded ف (Khalaf al-ʿĀshir), who therefore reads with Ḥafṣ here.
… min tafawwut: the short form with the doubled letter — shaqq (Ḥamzah, al-Kisāʾī) — radiant.
… tafāwut — fid (Khalaf al-ʿĀshir keeps the alif) … tadʿūna …
It is read with the wāw doubled and no alif — tafawwata al-amru tafawwutan, and tafāwutan — and it is read with the wāw light after an alif. They are two dialectal forms with the one meaning, disparity and discordance, like taʿahhud and taʿāhud. (Ṭalāʾiʿ 266)
The couplets on the lām of هَلْ and بَلْ: the first lists the eight letters it can merge into (the initials of ت ث ظ ز س ن ط ض); al-Kisāʾī (coded ر, رَاوٍ) merges into all of them and Ḥamzah (ف, فَاضِلٌ) into the thāʾ, sīn and tāʾ. The third line gives هَلْ تَرَىٰ — here and in al-Ḥāqqah — to Abū ʿAmr (ح, حُبَّ) as well; Hishām (ل) merges throughout except before the letters he is said to keep plain (وَأَظْهِرْ لَدَى وَاعٍ نَبِيلٍ ضَمَانُهُ — the nūn and the ḍād), so he merges here. The Durrah lines keep iẓhār for Khalaf al-ʿĀshir (ف, فَتًى) in هَلْ and بَلْ, هَلْ تَرَىٰ included.
The initials of this line name the letters the lām of bal and hal can merge into.
A rāwī (al-Kisāʾī) merges them all; a fāḍil (Ḥamzah) merges into thāʾ, sīn and tāʾ.
… and in hal tarā the idghām is loved (Abū ʿAmr) and carried.
Declare it plainly before (the nūn and the ḍād) — for Hishām, the exception to his merging.
Declare plainly idh together with qad …
… and hal and bal — fatā (Khalaf al-ʿĀshir) — hal with tarā …
Notes & justification
Two Durrah fragments: the first continues the ibdāl list (وَأَبْدِلَنْ, “and change”), the second names شَانِئَكَ and خَاسِئًا among the words in which Abū Jaʿfar (coded أ, أَلَا) changes the hamzah after a kasrah into a yāʾ — so خَاسِيࣰا.
… his preserve; and change (the hamzah) …
… likewise … shāniʾaka, khāsiʾan — alā (Abū Jaʿfar).