Q 11:43 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِلَيٰ مِنَ لَا مِنَ إِلَّا مَن مِنَ

He said: I shall betake me to some mountain that will save me from the water. (Noah) said: This day there is none that saveth from the commandment of Allah save him on whom He hath had mercy. And the wave came in between them, so he was among the drowned — 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, ¶53 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 196 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ومأجوج، والترك. الترك والهند والصين وهند الصين تلك البلاد كلا من بقايا يأجوج ومأجوج. ترى أن العرب والروم وفارس أولاد سام، وحام ولد السودان والبربر والقبط، السودان والبربر والقبط كلهم سودان أو سود الجلود أو حمر، يروى عن حام بن نوح أنه نام نوح وتجرد فانكشفت عورته فجاء يضحك من ذلك حتى جاء سام وستره، فدعا نوح على حام فبذلك اسودت جلود أبنائه، هذه القصة من الإسرائيليات التي لا أصل لها. إنما السواد والحمرة والبياض بحسب الأغذية والهواء والبلدان والمناكح فقط، رأيت القبط وهم سودان رأيت فرعون وهو أسود، والسودان وفارس سودان. ( وَقَالَ إرْكَبُواْ فِيهَا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ مُجْرِيْهَا وَمُرْسِيْهَا) أوحى اللّٰه إلى نوح أن يركبوا في السفينة بسم الله، "بِسْمِ اللَّهِ" بَها تجري السفينة وبها ترسو ( إِلَّ رَبِّى لَغَجُورٌ رَحِيم) حيث لم يهلكنا. ذكر الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (أنا في أمتي بمنزلة سفينة نوح من ركب فيها نجا ومن لم يركب فيها هلك) 1 كذلك الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم من اتبع دينه نجا في الدنيا …

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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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