What is the rhetorical position of “Qul al-ḥamdu lillāh wa-salāmun…”?

Arrangement of the Qur’an and the Rhetorical Style of Surahs

• It primarily announces the formal title of the surah
• It is a striking internal transition in a surah
• It merely gives a numerical catalogue of Qur’anic subjects
• It concludes only a legal claim under one ruling