Q 2:174 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ مَآ مِنَ بِهِۦ ا۟وْلَٰٓئِكَ مَا فِے إِلَّا وَلَا وَلَا وَلَهُمْ

Lo! those who hide aught of the Scripture which Allah hath revealed and purchase a small gain therewith, they eat into their bellies nothing else than fire. Allah will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He make them grow. Theirs will be a painful doom — 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 5, ¶105 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

على مذهب الشافعي ولا عاد ولا متجاوز للحلال والحرام (فَلَآ إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِۖ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ غَفُورࣱ رَّحِيمٌۖ اِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ يَكْتُمُونَ مَآ أَنزَلَ اَ۬للَّهُ مِنَ اَ۬لْكِتَٰبِ) المشتمل على نعت محمد (وَيَشْتَرُونَ بِهِ ثَمَنا قَلِيلًا) من الدنيا (ا۟وْلَٰٓئِكَ مَا يَاكُلُونَ فِے بُطُونِهِمُۥٓ إِلَّا اَ۬لنَّارَ وَلَا يُكَلِّمُهُمُ اُ۬للَّهُ يَوْمَ اَ۬لْقِيَٰمَةِ) غضبا عليهم (وَلا يُزَكِّيهِمْ) يطهرهم من دنس الذنوب (وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ اَلِيمٌۖ ا۟وْلَٰٓئِكَ اَ۬لذِينَ اَ۪شْتَرَوُاْ اُ۬لضَّلَٰلَةَ بِالْهُد۪يٰ وَالْعَذَابَ بِالْمَغْفِرَةِ) المعدة لهم في الآخرة لو لم يكتموا (فَمَآ أَصْبَرَهُمْ عَلَي اَ۬لنّ۪ارِۖ) ما أشد صبرهم على النار بارتكاب موجباتها (ذَلِكَ بِأَنَّ ألَّهِ) بسبب أن اللّٰه نَزَّلَ الْكِتَبَ) التوراة (بِالْحَقِّ وَإِنَّ اْلذِينَ إخْتَلَجُوا مِن الْكِتَبِ) وهم اليهود (لَهِى شِفَاوٍ) خلاف (بَعِيدٌ لَيْسَ ألْبِرُّ أَن تُوَلُّواْ وُجُوهَكْمْ) في صلاتكم (قِبَلَ الْمَشْرٍ …

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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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