O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. And for him who is forgiven somewhat by his (injured) brother, prosecution according to usage and payment unto him in kindness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. He who transgresseth after this will have 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 1, ¶72 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
فتح السورة بأربع آيات في المؤمنين، وآيتين في الكافرين وثلاث عشرة آية في المنافقين، ثم دعا عباده إلى وحدانيته والإيمان برسوله والجنة والنار، ثم خاطب بني إسرائيل في نصف السورة، ثم أتى بفقه الدين «كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِصَاصُ فِي الْقَتْلَى أُلْحُرُّ بِالْحُرِّ» الأوصاف الأربعة في أول السورة للخلفاء الأربعة، أول ما ذكر «هُدىً لِلْمُتَّفِيرَ»، والتقوى صفة أبي بكر الصديق رضي اللّٰه عنه «وَسَيُّجَنَّبُهَا ألاَتْقَى الذِى يُؤْتِى مَالَهُ يَتَزَكّى» هذه نزلت في أبي بكر اتفاقا. والإيمان بالغيب صفة عمر بن الخطاب رضي اللّٰه تعالى عنه. يوم أسلم عمر نزل على الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وعمر يسلم «يَأَيَّهَا الّنبِيُّ حَسْبُكَ اللَّهُ وَمَنِ إتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ
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.