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تفسير القرآن

Al-Samʿānī

أبو المظفر السمعاني (ت ٤٨٩ هـ)

Short and steady — the plain meaning, with the reports that bear on it and little else.

An-Nisāʾ 4:20 Juzʾ 4 Page 81

‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏

But if you want to replace one wife with another and you have given one of them a great amount [in gifts], do not take [back] from it anything. Would you take it in injustice and manifest sin?

Read in the muṣḥaf

قَوْله تَعَالَى: ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ أَرَادَ بِالزَّوْجِ هَاهُنَا: الزَّوْجَة، وَهُوَ اسْم للرجل وَالْمَرْأَة ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ يَعْنِي: من الصَدَاق، ‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ أَي: ظلما ‏‏‏‏ ‏‏‏‏‏ .

The same ayah, in another commentary

An-Nisāʾ 4:20