"I read" (qara'tu), just as you say al-khusrān (loss) from khasirta (you lost), al-ghufrān (forgiveness) from "may Allah forgive (ghafara) you", al-kufrān (ingratitude) from ka fartuka (I disbelieved in/rejected you), and al-furqān (criterion) from "Allah differentiated (faraqa) between truth and falsehood".

117- And that is because Yaḥyā ibn ʿUthmān ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Sahmī narrated to me, saying: ʿAbd Allāh ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to us, saying: Muʿāwiya ibn Ṣāliḥ narrated to me, from ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭalḥa, from Ibn ʿAbbās regarding His statement: {So when We have recited it} he says: We have explained it, {then follow its recitation} [Surah al-Qiyāmah: 18] he says: act upon it (1).

And the meaning of this statement of Ibn ʿAbbās is: "So when We have explained it through recitation, act upon what We have explained to you through recitation." And among that which clarifies the correctness of what we said regarding the Interpretation of this report of Ibn ʿAbbās is what:-

118- Muḥammad ibn Saʿd narrated to me, saying: my father narrated to me, saying: my uncle narrated to me, saying: my father narrated to me, from his father, from ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās: {Indeed, upon Us is its collection and its recitation} [Surah al-Qiyāmah: 17] he said: That We cause you to recite it so you do not forget; {So when We have recited it} to you, {then follow its recitation} he says: when it is recited to you, follow what is in it (2).

Abū Jaʿfar said: Thus this report from Ibn ʿAbbās explicitly states that the meaning of "al-Qur'an" according to him is recitation, for it is a verbal noun from the statement of one saying: "I read" (qara'tu), as we have explained.

As for according to the statement of Qatāda, the obligatory view is that it is a verbal noun from the statement of one saying: "I gathered the thing" (qara'tu al-shay'), when you gather it and join some of it to another, as you say: "This she-camel never gathered a placenta at all" (3), meaning thereby that her womb never enclosed a fetus, as ʿAmr ibn Kulthūm al-Taghlibī said: