Q 12:99 across the corpus — Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

Q 12:99 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَلَمَّا عَلَيٰ يُوسُفَ إِلَيْهِ إِن

And when they came in before Joseph, he took his parents unto him, and said: Come into Egypt safe, if Allah will — 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.

Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 27, ¶58 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 39 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لجيوش وصهل الخيل وتحرك الناس حركة كبيرة كأن القيامة قد قامت أتى جبريل وقال: يوسف انزل عن الفرس وامش تواضعا لأبيك فنزل يوسف ومشى على قدميه حتى استقبل والده يعقوب فسلم عليه قال له: هؤلاء العبيد كلا ستة عشر ألفا من الرقيق ملكي أعتقهم لله فرحا بلقائك، إن كان يوسف يعتق هذا من الرقاب فرحا بلقاء يعقوب فكم سيعتق الحق تعالى بلقاء حبيبه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم؟ (فَلَمَّا دَخَلُواْ عَلَيٰ يُوسُفَ ءَاو۪يٰٓ إِلَيْهِ أَبَوَيْهِ وَقَالَ اَ۟دْخُلُواْ مِصْرَ إِن شَآءَ اَ۬للَّهُ ءَامِنِينَۖ وَرَفَعَ أَبَوَيْهِ عَلَي اَ۬لْعَرْشِ وَخَرُّواْ لَهُۥ سُجَّداٗۖ فخروا كلا وسجدوا تحية له في ذلك الزمان (وَقَالَ يَٰٓأَبَتِ هَٰذَا تَاوِيلُ رُءْيٰ۪يَ مِن قَبْلُ) هذه الرؤيا التي رأيت قبل ( قَدْ جَعَلَهَا رَبِّے حَقّاٗۖ وَقَدَ اَحْسَنَ بِيَ ) إلي (إِذَ اَخْرَجَنِے مِنَ اَ۬لسِّجْنِ) لم يقل من الجب تكرما لئلا تخجل إخوته قال «إِذَ اَخْرَجَنِے مِنَ اَ۬لسِّجْنِ» لأن الجب هم الذين أدخلوه فيه لو ذكره لخجلوا ولأن الجب خرج …

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The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.