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﴿وَالْمُقِيمِينَ الصَّلَاةَ وَالْمُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ﴾
And those who establish prayer and those who give alms.

In Qur’an 4:162, al-muqīmīna has an accusative ending while the following al-muʾtūna is nominative. One grammatical explanation treats the accusative as a construction of commendation or specification. Any proposed syntax must be weighed with the established recitation and contextual structure.

A transmitted historical remark must not be used without verification to declare an established Qur’anic reading a scribal error. Reports require independent scrutiny; grammatical interpretation should preserve the recognized Qur’anic wording.

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The syntactic case of wa-l-muqīmīna al-ṣalāh

Legal Inference, Interpretive Clarification, and Supporting Disciplines of Tafsir

﴿وَالْمُقِيمِينَ الصَّلَاةَ وَالْمُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ﴾
And those who establish prayer and those who give alms.

In Qur’an 4:162, al-muqīmīna has an accusative ending while the following al-muʾtūna is nominative. One grammatical explanation treats the accusative as a construction of commendation or specification. Any proposed syntax must be weighed with the established recitation and contextual structure.

A transmitted historical remark must not be used without verification to declare an established Qur’anic reading a scribal error. Reports require independent scrutiny; grammatical interpretation should preserve the recognized Qur’anic wording.