Direct answer
The claim concerns the order in which bequest and inheritance appear in Shahrur’s reading of Surat al-Nisa’. The intended meaning is that bequest comes first, followed by inheritance, with the significance of the “priority of bequest” attributed to this sequence.
What is attributed to Shahrur
The available material records that Shahrur reads the order of the verses of Surat al-Nisa’ as deliberate: it begins with bequest and then moves to inheritance. It is attributed to him that this “indicates the priority of bequest.”
This wording appears in the guide as a paraphrase, not as a verbatim quotation from the episode.
Atlas explanation
The page records the structure of the reasoning as it appears in the guide: noting the order of bequest and inheritance, then inferring the priority of bequest. The page does not itself add a definition of this priority or any legal implications for it, because the available material does not elaborate on this.
For the related source context: Episode 26. At the book level, the atom is connected to Towards New Principles for Islamic Jurisprudence and The Mother of the Book and Its Elaboration.
Synthetic conclusion
The atom records a move, in the reading attributed to Shahrur, from observing the order of the text to attributing priority to bequest, without the guide specifying the nature of this priority or its practical effects.
Open question and limits
What precisely does “the priority of bequest” mean for Shahrur? The available guide does not settle whether it concerns textual order, legislative priority, or the manner in which inheritance is applied. Nor does it provide a verbatim quotation or the text of the verses under discussion. It is therefore necessary to return to the original episode and review the related books before adopting further detail.