وَقَالَ لَهُمْ نَبِيٓـُٔهُمُۥٓ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ قَدْ بَعَثَ لَكُمْ طَالُوتَ مَلِكاࣰۖ قَالُوٓاْ أَنّ۪يٰ يَكُونُ لَهُ اُ۬لْمُلْكُ عَلَيْنَا وَنَحْنُ أَحَقُّ بِالْمُلْكِ مِنْهُ وَلَمْ يُوتَ سَعَةࣰ مِّنَ اَ۬لْمَالِۖ قَالَ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ اَ۪صْطَف۪يٰهُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَزَادَهُۥ بَسْطَةࣰ فِے اِ۬لْعِلْمِ وَالْجِسْمِۖ وَاللَّهُ يُوتِے مُلْكَهُۥ مَنْ يَّشَآءُۖ وَاللَّهُ وَٰسِعٌ عَلِيمࣱۖ

Their Prophet said unto them: Lo! Allah hath raised up Saul to be a king for you. They said: How can he have kingdom over us when we are more deserving of the kingdom than he is, since he hath not been given wealth enough? He said: Lo! Allah hath chosen him above you, and hath increased him abundantly in wisdom and stature. Allah bestoweth His Sovereignty on whom He will. Allah is All-Embracing, All-Knowing — Pickthall

In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The site’s Arabic edition follows Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ; the reference text quoted here and the matcher behind the Fī Riyāḍ loci are Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim. Content is nearly identical, but verse-boundary numbering diverges in a handful of places. Each locus carries its own witness’s numbering. Page references 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.