Q 18:78 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

هَٰذَا مَا لَمْ عَّلَيْهِ

He said: This is the parting between thee and me! I will announce unto thee the interpretation of that thou couldst not bear with patience — 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 Al-Kahf begins at vol. 6, p. 3 (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 31, ¶82 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

مال مدفون (لَهُمَا وَكَانَ أَبْوهُمَا صَلِحا عمل لهما ما عمل لصلاح أبيهما ( بَأَرَادَ رَبُّكَ أَنْ يَبْلُغَآ أَشْدَّهُمَا وَيَسْتَخْرِجًا كَنْزَهُمَا رَحْمَةً صِ رَبِّكَم هذا هو التأويل الأخير (وَمَا فَعَلْتُهُۥ عَنَ اَمْرِےۖ) الجواب يكفي منه هذا «وَمَا بَعَلْتُهُو عَىَ آمْرِي» فقط هذا هو الجواب، إنما فعل ما فعل بأمر اللّٰه وإلا كون السفينة لمساكين وإذا لم يكن فيها عيب غُصبت لا يجوز في الشريعة قلع ألواحها، والغلام الصغير كونه يعلم أنه سيكون كافرا لا يجوز له أن يقتله، فأنا تأويله عندي «وَمَا بَعَلْتُهُو عَىَ آمْرِهُ» كل شيء فعله بأمر الله. والله عنده أمر ظاهر وأمر باطن، والنبي يكون حامل الشريعة وحامل الحقيقة تارة يحكم بالشريعة وتارة يحكم بالأمر الباطن كما وقع للنبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم في القضية التي قرأنا أمس 1 قضى فيها وجمع بين الظاهر والباطن. غلام تنازع عليه شخصان واحد أوصى أخاه أنه هو الذي زنى بالجارية فالولد منه فليأخذه أخوه، والآخر الجارية ملك أبيه فرأى أن الجارية وما ولدت ملك أبيه. …

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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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