and al-Farrā’, Abū ‘Ubayd, Tha‘lab, Ibn al-Anbārī, and the majority.

Ibn al-Anbārī said: “In ‘Abd Allāh’s reading: ‘Its interpretation rests with Allah alone’; and in the reading of Ubayy and Ibn ‘Abbās: ‘And those firmly grounded in knowledge say.’”

He said: Allah has revealed in His Book matters whose knowledge He has reserved to Himself, as in His saying, exalted is He:

“Say, ‘Knowledge of it is only with my Lord.’” [al-A‘rāf 187]

And His saying, exalted is He: