And follow that which the devils falsely related against the kingdom of Solomon. Solomon disbelieved not; but the devils disbelieved, teaching mankind magic and that which was revealed to the two angels in Babel, Harut and Marut. Nor did they (the two angels) teach it to anyone till they had said: We are only a temptation, therefore disbelieve not (in the guidance of Allah). And from these two (angles) people learn that by which they cause division between man and wife; but they injure thereby no-one save by Allah's leave. And they learn that which harmeth them and profiteth them not. And surely they do know that he who trafficketh therein will have no (happy) portion in the Hereafter; and surely evil is the price for which they sell their souls, if they but knew — 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-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54(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 4, ¶60 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
تسترق السمع وتضم إليه أكاذيب وتلقيه إلى الكهنة فيدونونه وفشا ذلك وشاع أن الجن تعلم الغيب، فجمع سليمان الكتب ودفنها فلما مات دلت الشياطين عليها الناس فاستخرجوها فوجدوا فيها السحر فقالوا: إنما ملككم بهذا فتعلموه ورفضوا كتب أنبيائهم، قال تعالى تبرئة لسليمان وردا على اليهود في قولهم انظروا إلى محمد يذكر سليمان في الأنبياء وما كان إلا ساحرا، قال تعالى (وَمَا كَفَرَ سُلَيْمَٰن)َ) أي لم يعمل السعر (وَلَٰكِنَّ اَ۬لشَّيَٰطِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُعَلِّمُونَ اَ۬لنَّاسَ اَ۬لسِّحْرَ وَمَآ)َ) يعلمونهم (مَآ أُنزِلَ عَلَي اَ۬لْمَلَكَيْن) أُهِماء من السحر (بِبَابِل) بلد في سواد العراق[35] (هَارُوتَ وَمَارُوتَ) الملكان هما هاروت وماروت كانا من صالحي الملائكة(وَمَا يُعَلِّمَٰنِ مِنَ اَحَدٍ حَتَّيٰ يَقُولَآ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَة) )
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.