[Machine] "He prayed with them, then recited, 'Allah! There is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence.' Abu Ubaid said, 'Regarding the different reciters after the people of the two holy cities, Mecca and Medina, and the people of the two Egyptian cities, Kufa and Basra, and the people of Syria and Egypt, and others among the reciters, they recite it as 'Al-Qayyum' [Surah Al Imran 2]. There is no disagreement among them in this. I know this to be the case, and this is also the recitation in our area, which aligns with the manuscript and what the Muslim nation agrees upon. Even though there are two ways of pronunciation in the Arabic language.'"  

أَنَّهُ صَلَّى بِهِمْ «فَقَرَأَ الم اللَّهُ لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْقَيَّامُ» قَالَ أَبُو عُبَيْدٍ أَمَّا الْقُرَّاءُ بَعْدُ مِنْ أَهْلِ الْحَرَمَيْنِ مَكَّةَ وَالْمَدِينَةِ وَأَهْلِ الْمِصْرَيْنِ الْكُوفَةِ وَالْبَصْرَةِ وَأَهْلِ الشَّامِ وَمِصْرَ وَغَيْرِهِمْ مِنَ الْقُرَّاءِ فَقَرَءُوهَا {الْقَيُّومُ} [آل عمران 2] لَا اخْتِلَافَ بَيْنَهُمْ فِيهِ أَعْلَمُهُ وَكَذَلِكَ الْقِرَاءَةُ عِنْدَنَا لِمُوَافَقَةِ الكِتَابِ وَلِمَا عَلَيْهِ الْأُمَّةُ وَإِنْ كَانَ لِذَيْنِكَ الْوَجْهَيْنِ فِي الْعَرَبِيَّةِ مَخْرَجٌ