Didn't He SayCLAIM № 51-47-ASŪRAT ADH-DHĀRIYĀT · COSMOLOGYCross-referenced
Primary source
وَالسَّمَاءَ بَنَيْنَاهَا بِأَيْدٍ وَإِنَّا لَمُوسِعُونَ
"And the heaven We constructed with strength, and indeed, We are [its] expander."
Qur'an 51:47 · trans. Saheeh International
Independent findings
Classical exegesis read the expanding as vastness or unfailing capacity; the reading that links it to metric expansion is modern. Because the linguistic link is plausible but not necessary, the record is filed as a cross-reference — the stamp this library uses when a reading fits but cannot be forced.
[3] Hubble 1929, PNAS 15(3) · [2] Peebles, Physical Cosmology · al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-bayān ad 51:47
PROVENANCE: manuscript → Ḥafṣ transmission → 1924 Cairo edition✓ text unchanged