Sūrat Al-Kahf · 18 : 22

مَّا إِلَّا ۞فَلَا فِيهِمُۥٓ إِلَّا وَلَا فِيهِم مِّنْهُمُۥٓ

(Some) will say: They were three, their dog the fourth, and (some) say: Five, their dog the sixth, guessing at random; and (some) say: Seven, and their dog the eighth. Say (O Muhammad): My Lord is Best Aware of their number. None knoweth them save a few. So contend not concerning them except with an outward contending, and ask not any of them to pronounce concerning them — Pickthall

In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Kahf begins at vol. 6, p. 3 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The āya above is Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ, the rasm of the printed edition. The root behind each underlined word comes from a Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim corpus, realigned to this Warsh text word by word; 125 of the 6,236 āyāt differ in word count between the two riwāyāt, and those were aligned rather than assumed. A word carries no underline where the corpus supplies no root. Lexicon entries are a reading aid and carry no page reference; the edition does not cite them. Page references elsewhere on this site follow the ten-volume Tunis 2022 printing this site was transcribed from; published scholarship on this text cites the six-volume Tunis 2010 printing, whose pagination is different.

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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr◐ matched, unchecked

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 31, ¶30 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

باب الكهف {سَيَفُولُون} المتنازعون في عدد الفتية زمن النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، يقول بعضهم هم (ثَلَّثَةُ رَابْعُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ وَيَفُولُونَ ) بعضهم { خَمْسَةٌ سَادِسُهُمْ كَلَّبْهُمْ} والقولان النصارى نجران (رَجْمَاً الْغَيْبِ) ظنا في الغيبة، ظن لا يعول على شيء {وَيَقُولُونَ} المؤمنون ( سَبْعَةٌ وَثَامِنُهُمْ كَلْبُهُمْ) بعضهم يقولون إنهم سبعة وثامنهم كلبهم ( فُل رَّبِيَ أَعْلَمُ بِعِدَّتِهِم مَا يَعْلَمُهُم إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ) الحق أن عددهم لا يعلمه إلا اللّٰه أو قليل من علماء هذه الأمة، قال ابن عباس: أنا من ذلك القليل. قصتهم تضمنت "قَالُوا" مرتين، - قالوا-أقل الجماعة ثلاثة، و"قَالَ" مرة وهذا مفرد فهذا يدل على أنهم سبعة، هذا قول ابن عباس الذي هو ترجمان القرآن. ويفهم بنص القرآن -وأحسن تفسير القرآن تفسير القرآن بالقرآن.

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