Q 18:86 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَا فِے يَٰذَا إِمَّآ أَن وَإِمَّآ أَن فِيهِمْ

Till, when he reached the setting-place of the sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout. We said: O Dhu'l-Qarneyn! Either punish or show them kindness — 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, ¶86 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فأسنده إلى نفسه «فَأَرَدتُّ أَنَ أعِيبَهَا» كما قال ابراهيم "وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ قَهُوَ يَشْعِيسٍ" لم يقل اذا أمرضني، لما رأى المرض شرا أسنده إلى نفسه، والشفاء خيرا أسنده إلى ربه. والقضية الثانية قال «بَأَرَدْنَا» لأن هذه القضية جمعت بين الشر والخير فقال أردنا ليكون الشر إلى الخضر والخير إلى الرب، والقضية الأخيرة خير محض فقال «أَرَادَ رَبُّكَ أَنْ يَبْلُغَا أَشْدَّهُمَا وَيَسْتَخْرِجًا كَنْرَهُمَا رَحْمَةْ صِ رَبَّكَ» ( ذَلِكَ تَاوِيلُ مَا لَمْ تَسْطِع عَلَيْهِ صَبْراً وَيَسْتَلُونَكَ عَى ذِى الْفَرْنَيْنِ) اسمه الإسكندر ولم يكن نبيا، وليس هو اسكندر مصر، هذا اسكندر قبله، سائح عربي مصلح، الذي يبدو أنه من أهل اليمن 1 لأن أهل اليمن هم الذين يتسمون بالأذواء دائما، ذو الكفل، ذو القرنين، ذو .. كثير في اليمن، «وَيَسْئَلُونَكَ عَى ذِى الْفَرْنَيْنِ» (فَلْ سَأَتْلُواْ عَلَيْكُم مِنْهُ ذِكْرا خبرا (إِنَّا مَكَّنَّا لَهُ مِ الارْضِ) بتسهيل السير وَءَاتَيْنَهُ صِن كُلِّ شَءٍ) يحتاج إليه ( سَبَباً …

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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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