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About the sources

The text

The Qur’an’s text is Tanzil’s, unchanged, in the Uthmani script, with its simple text for search; its source is given as its terms ask.

Pages and juz

The first ayah of each of the Madina mushaf’s 604 pages, and where each juz and each quarter of a hizb begins, are Tanzil’s metadata, under Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0). A page’s lines follow the screen’s width, not the printed lines.

Translations

al-Tafsir al-Muyassar and 11 translations from QuranEnc (English, Portuguese, Japanese, Urdu, Indonesian, Turkish, French, Spanish, Persian, German, Chinese), each with its publisher and version, unchanged, under its terms for republishing. It holds translations in more than eighty languages, which can be added on the same terms.

The commentaries

80 books from al-Maktaba al-Shamila in their prints, each book’s words on an ayah as it wrote them, with volume and page. al-Tabari by his headings, views and reports; al-Wahidi by his accounts.

Language and grammar

Eight books on the Qur’an’s meanings, rare words and grammar, each book’s words on an ayah as it wrote them, with volume and page: al-Farra’s Ma‘ani al-Qur’an, Abu ‘Ubayda’s Majaz al-Qur’an, al-Akhfash’s Ma‘ani al-Qur’an, Ibn Qutayba’s Gharib al-Qur’an, al-Zajjaj’s Ma‘ani al-Qur’an wa I‘rabuh, al-Nahhas’s Ma‘ani al-Qur’an and I‘rab al-Qur’an, and al-Samin al-Halabi’s al-Durr al-Masun.

Stops and starts

al-Sajawandi’s stops from his ‘Ilal al-Wuquf (5,467), each in its place among the ayah’s words, with his sign, his reason in his words, and its page.

The Sunna, the Seerah and the Fiqh

The hadith that give an ayah’s words come from the Hadith app’s database. What the Fiqh books, their commentaries and the Seerah books quote of an ayah was found by the braces { } their prints set around a quote, matched word for word on the ayah’s text; an ayah is tied only when the words lead to one place in the Qur’an.

Doubts answered

Ibn Qutayba’s Ta’wil Mushkil al-Qur’an, written against those who attacked the Qur’an, and al-Shinqiti’s Daf‘ Iham al-Idtirab on ayat that seem to clash, each in its words with its page.

Shawahid

What six books of eloquence and the Qur’an’s inimitability say on an ayah by its words, in the book’s words with volume and page, the ayah’s words marked: al-Khattabi’s Bayan I‘jaz al-Qur’an, al-Baqillani’s I‘jaz al-Qur’an, ‘Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani’s Dala’il al-I‘jaz, al-Suyuti’s al-Itqan fi ‘Ulum al-Qur’an, al-Rafi‘i’s I‘jaz al-Qur’an wa-l-Balagha al-Nabawiyya, and al-Zurqani’s Manahil al-‘Irfan. From Manahil al-‘Irfan also what he gives under the Qur’an’s other aspects of inimitability: tidings of the unseen, the natural sciences, and others.

No ranking

What is here gives the scholars’ words as they wrote them; we rank none of their views.