Interpréter le Coran versus défendre le muṣḥaf : l'exemple du verset 2, 184c.

The reading of verse 2, 184c (wa-ʿalā llaḏīna yuṭīqūna-hu fidyatun ṭaʿāmu miskīnin) in the codex (muṣḥaf) confronted the exegetes with difficult problems to overcome. This is how they were led to come up with several interpretations, one of which in particular won the approval of many of them and was adopted by the first Sunni authorities of the tafsīr (Muqātil b. Sulaymān, Abū ʿUbayd, al-Ṭabarī) even if at the same time it goes far away from the codex statement. We try here to understand the reasons for this apparently absurd choice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]