Q 11:40 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَا اَ۬لتَّنُّورُ فِيهَا مِن إِلَّا مَن عَلَيْهِ وَمَنَ وَمَآ مَعَهُۥٓ إِلَّا

(Thus it was) till, when Our commandment came to pass and the oven gushed forth water, We said: Load therein two of every kind, a pair (the male and female), and thy household, save him against whom the word hath gone forth already, and those who believe. And but a few were they who believed with him — Pickthall

Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (d. 1975) read the whole Qurʾān aloud at Medina Baye over fifty-six sessions between ẓuhr and ʿaṣr in Ramaḍān 1383/1964, and his students wrote those sessions down as Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr. He comes back to the same āya elsewhere — in the fatwās, the Ḥikam, the poetry — decades apart. About the tafsīr →

In the printed edition: Sūrat Hūd begins at vol. 4, p. 193 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)

The āya above is Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ, the rasm of the printed edition. The root behind each underlined word comes from a Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim corpus, realigned to this Warsh text word by word; 125 of the 6,236 āyāt differ in word count between the two riwāyāt, and those were aligned rather than assumed. A word carries no underline where the corpus supplies no root. Lexicon entries are a reading aid and carry no page reference; the edition does not cite them. Page references elsewhere on this site follow the ten-volume Tunis 2022 printing this site was transcribed from; published scholarship on this text cites the six-volume Tunis 2010 printing, whose pagination is different.

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 25, ¶44 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 196 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

تخاطِبْنِي في الذِيسَ ظَلَمَوَا إِنَّهَم مَعْرَفُونَ وَبَصْنَعُ أَلْمُلْكَ) حكاية حال ماضية ( وَكُلُمَا مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مَلا جماعة ( مس فَوْمِهِ، سَخِرُوا مِنْةَ ) استهزوا به، يقولون: سبحان اللّٰه صرت نجارا بعدما كنت نبيا (قَالَ إِى تَسْخَرُواْ مِنَّا بَرِنَّا تَسْخَرُ مِنْكُمْ كَمَا تَسْكَرُونٌ) سنجازيكم على سخريتكم، هذا بمنزلة " وَجَزّؤَا سَيِّئَةٍ سَيِّئَةٌ مِثْلَهَا أما السخرية فلا تصدر من الأنبياء (بَسَوْقَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَنْ يَاتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْزِيهِ وَيَحِلُّ عَلَيْهِ عَذَابٌ مُفِيتّ دائم (حَتَّى إِذَا جَآءَ امْرُنَاه بإهلاكهم (وَجَارَ التَّنُّورَ) للخباز بالماء وكان ذلك علامة لنوح (فَلْنَا إحيل جِيهَا) في السفينة (ص كُلِّ زَوْجَيْ) ذكرا وأنثى (إثْنَيْنِ وَأَهْلَكَ)) أي زوجته وأولاده (إلاَّ مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلُ) منهم بالهلاك وهو زوجته الكافرة وولده كنعان بخلاف سام وحام ويافث نحملهم وزوجاتهم الثلاث (وَمَرَ امَنَ وَمَآ ءَامَىَ مَعَهُ إِلاَّا فَلِيل) قيل كانوا ستة رجال …

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Entries are grouped by what Shaykh Ibrāhīm is doing with the verse, then ordered oldest first inside each group, so the same words can be seen carrying different work across a career. Every entry names the witness it comes from and how well attested the attribution is. Loci that are known but not yet available are listed rather than hidden. Beyond Fī Riyāḍ al-Tafsīr, 156 āyāt have so far been indexed from his other writings — the Ḥikam, the fatwās, Kāshif al-Ilbās, theQanābīl, the Tafsīr Maʿānī cassettes. A verse with nothing under this heading has not been searched in them and found wanting; it has not been searched.

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