أَبْرَزَ لَهُمَا دِينَارًا مِنْ تَحْتِ مُصَلَّاهُ
When the judge had heard both accounts and recognized their need, he brought out a dinar from beneath his prayer mat.
Khaṣāṣatuhumā means their need or poverty; muṣallāh refers here to his place of prayer. The judge responds not only to a formal claim but to the hardship affecting both parties.
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The Maʿarran Maqāmah — The Needle, Its Compensation, and the Judge’s Dinar
أَبْرَزَ لَهُمَا دِينَارًا مِنْ تَحْتِ مُصَلَّاهُ
When the judge had heard both accounts and recognized their need, he brought out a dinar from beneath his prayer mat.
Khaṣāṣatuhumā means their need or poverty; muṣallāh refers here to his place of prayer. The judge responds not only to a formal claim but to the hardship affecting both parties.