Q 12:38 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِبْرَٰهِيمَ وَإِسْحَٰقَ وَيَعْقُوبَۖ مَا لَنَآ أَن مِن ذَٰلِكَ مِن عَلَيْنَا وَعَلَي وَلَٰكِنَّ لَا

And I have followed the religion of my fathers, Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. It never was for us to attribute aught as partner to Allah. This is of the bounty of Allah unto us (the seed of Abraham) and unto mankind; but most men give not thanks — 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 Yūsuf begins at vol. 5, p. 18 (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 26, ¶108 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عَنْهُ كَيْدَهُنَّ إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ السَّمِيعَ الْعَلِيمُ ثُمَّ بَدَا)ظهر (لَهُم مِّنۢ بَعْدِ مَا رَأَوُاْ اُ۬لَايَٰتِ) الدلالات على براءة يوسف أن يسجنوه (لَيَسْجُنُنَّهُۥ حَتَّيٰ حِينٖۖ ) قالوا لا بد من دخول السجن حتى ينقطع الكلام، فسجن فتحول السجن إلى زليخا، صارت تطلع وتجلس على سقف بيتها تنظر إلى السجن فقط ليلا ونهارا لشدة محبتها ليوسف، يوسف في راحة وزليخا في عذاب، تحول السجن إليها (وَدَخَلَ مَعَهُ اُ۬لسِّجْنَ فَتَيَٰنِۖ) غلامان للملك أحدهما ساقيه والآخر صاحب طعامه فرأياه عبر الرؤيا، فقالا لنختبرنه (قَالَ أَحَدُهُمَا)) وهو الساقي (إِنِّيَ أَر۪يٰنِيَ أَعْصِرُ خَمْراٗۖ) عنبا (وَقَالَ الآخَرْ) صاحب الطعام (إِنِّيَ أَر۪يٰنِيَ أَحْمِلُ فَوْقَ رَأْسِے خُبْزاٗ تَاكُلُ اُ۬لطَّيْرُ مِنْهُۖ نَبِّئْنَا) خبرنا (بِتَاوِبلِهِ) بتعبيره (إِنَّا نَرِيْكَ مِنَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ قَالَ) يوسف (لاَ يَاتِيكُمَا طَعَامٌ تُرْزَقَنِهِ) في منامكما (إِلاَّ نَبَّأْتُكُمَا بِتَاوِيلِهِ، ) في اليقظة (قَبْلَ أَنْ …

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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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