has Allah listened to anything as He has listened to a prophet (1) with a beautiful voice reciting the Quran melodiously and aloud” (2).

Al-Tabarī said (3): This hadith makes it abundantly clear that the meaning is as we have stated. If it meant what Ibn ‘Uyayna said—namely, finding the Quran sufficient without needing anything else—there would be no point in mentioning beauty of voice or reciting aloud. In established Arabic usage, taghannī means singing: beautifying the voice through melodic modulation. The poet said (4):

Sing your verse if you would recite it;
Singing is the training ground for such poetry.

He said: As for the assertion of the claimant (5) that the use of “taghannaytu” (“I sang”) to mean “istaghnaytu” (“I was self-sufficient”) is widespread (6) in Arabic speech, we know of no scholar of the Arabic language who has said this.

As for his citing the words of al-A‘shā (7) to substantiate his interpretation:

For a time I was a man in Iraq,
Chaste in my lodgings, long in my stay.

His claim that the poet meant by “prolonged taghannī” prolonged self-sufficiency is mistaken.