﴿ أَوْ مِسْكِينًۭا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍۢ ﴾

“or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust –”

or a needy person in misery matraba literally means ‘clinging to the dust turāb’ because of his poverty; a variant reading has two verbal nouns in place of the two verbs fakka ‘he freed’ and at‘ama ‘he fed’ the first being in a genitive construction fakku raqabatin ‘the freeing of a slave’ and the second with nunation it‘āmun ‘to give food’ in which case there is an implied iqtihāmu before al-‘aqaba of which the said reading becomes the explication;