سُورَةُ الإنسان
al-Insān— Man
Notes & justification
Nāfiʿ, Abū Jaʿfar, Hishām, Shuʿbah and al-Kisāʾī read سَلَٰسِلًا with tanwīn when joining on, and pause on it with the tanwīn turned into an alif. The rest drop the tanwīn in waṣl, and differ at the pause: Abū ʿAmr and Rawḥ stop with the alif; Ḥamzah, Qunbul, Ruways and Khalaf al-ʿĀshir stop without it, the lām made sākin (سَلَاسِلْ); Ḥafṣ, al-Bazzī and Ibn Dhakwān have both — the first as Abū ʿAmr and Rawḥ, the second as Ḥamzah and those with him (al-Budūr al-Zāhirah 332).
Give salāsila tanwīn — those coded إِذْ رَوَوْا صَرْفَهُ لَنَا (Nāfiʿ, Hishām, Shuʿbah, al-Kisāʾī) transmitted it declinable; and pause with the short form (no alif) — those coded مِنْ عَنْ هُدًى (Ibn Dhakwān, Ḥafṣ, al-Bazzī) with khulf, and فَلَا … زَكَا (Ḥamzah, Qunbul) without.
The opening word of the next couplet, which the book prints in full under 76:15.
The Durrah's line, abridged with the book's own dots, naming salāsila.
At the pause read it short (without the alif) — coded طُلْ (Ruways); the couplet runs on to qawārīra (given in full under 76:15).
The tanwīn is read for symmetry, since the word that follows (أَغْلَٰلًا) carries tanwīn in the accusative. Al-Kisāʾī and other Kūfans report that some Arabs decline every diptote except the elative pattern, and al-Akhfash that some — the Banū Asad — decline them all, because a noun's basic state is to be declinable; on this reading the pause turns the tanwīn into an alif. It is also read as a diptote, without tanwīn, as the norm requires of a broken plural with two letters after its alif (like مَسَاجِد). The alif added at the pause on that reading likens it to the prolonged vowel at the end of a rhyming verse (iṭlāq), as the alif is added in ٱلظُّنُونَا, ٱلرَّسُولَا and ٱلسَّبِيلَا (Ṭalāʾiʿ al-Bishr 274).