Tafsir at-Tabari: Jami' al-Bayan - Dar al-Tarbiyah wa al-Turath Edition

He means: As if you were, among the camels of Banū Uqaysh, a camel rattled behind his hind legs with a dried skin. So he sufficed with what was apparent from the mention of "camels," which indicated the omitted word, instead of making the omitted word explicit. And as al-Farazdaq b. Ghālib said: You see their ropes, wearing them around their necks ... when iron rusts upon the armored warriors (1)

He means: wearing them around their necks are they. So he omitted "they," since the apparent meaning of his saying "their ropes" indicated it.

The evidences for this from the poetry and speech of the Arabs are too numerous to count. The same applies to His saying: "the path of those upon whom You have bestowed favor."

The statement regarding the interpretation of His saying: {not of those who have evoked [Your] anger}.

Abū Jaʿfar said: The reciters are agreed upon reading "ghayri" with the rāʾ in the genitive case (2). The genitive case applies to it from two perspectives:

One of them: That "ghayri" is an adjective for "alladhīna" (those who) and a description of them, thus putting it in the genitive case, since "alladhīna" is in the genitive case, and it is a description and adjective for them. It is only permissible for "ghayri" to be an adjective for "alladhīna"—while "alladhīna" is definite and "ghayri" is indefinite—because "alladhīna" with its relative clause is not a specific definite noun like the names

(1) His Dīwān: 131, and al-Naqāʾiḍ: 773. It comes in the interpretation (Tafsir) of the verse of Sūrat al-Shuʿarāʾ: 4 (19/38 Būlāq ed.), where it is "ʿalā al-kitāb", which is an error. He lampoons Jarīr and his people, Banū Kulayb ibn Yarbūʿ. Al-arbāq: plural of ribq, and ribq is the plural of ribqa: which is the rope with which small sheep are tied so they do not suckle. And taqallada al-sayf: put its shoulder-strap over his shoulder. And al-kumāh: plural of kamī, which is the fierce, mighty hero. He describes Banū Kulayb as vile, miserly shepherds whose only concern is tending sheep, while the heroes in war endure its heat for long days until the iron of the body armor rusts on their bodies from sweat.
(2) In the printed edition: "and the reciters are agreed" (wa-l-qurrāʾu mujmiʿatun), and al-qaraʾa is the plural of qāriʾ (reciter). See what preceded: 51 in the commentary, 64 commentary: 4, and 109 commentary: 1.

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