Q 2:184 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَمَن مِنكُم اَوْ عَلَيٰ مِّنَ وَعَلَي اَ۬لذِينَ فَمَن فَهُوَ لَّهُۥۖ وَأَن لَّكُمُۥٓ إِن

(Fast) a certain number of days; and (for) him who is sick among you, or on a journey, (the same) number of other days; and for those who can afford it there is a ransom: the feeding of a man in need - but whoso doeth good of his own accord, it is better for him: and that ye fast is better for you if ye did but know — 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, ¶112 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 120 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(فَمَنْ خَافَ صِ مُوصٍ جَنَعا) ميلا عن الحق (أو إِثْما) بأن تعمد فزاد على الثلث (بَأَصْلَحَ بَيْنَهُمْ ) بين الموصي والموصى له (فَلَآ إِثْمَ عَلَيْهِۖ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ غَفُورࣱ رَّحِيمࣱۖ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ اُ۬لصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَي اَ۬لذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ) من الأمم (لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّفُولَ أَيَّاماً مَعْدُودَاتٍ قلائل أو مؤقتات بعدد معلوم وهي رمضان (قَسَى كَالَ مِنكُم مَرِيضاً أوْ عَلَىٰ سَبَرِ) مسافر سفر قصر (قَعِدَّة) فعليه عدة ما أفطر مِ آَيَّامِ اخَرَم يصومها بدله (وَعَلَى ألذِينَ يُطِيقُونَهُ ) أي لا يطيقونه مِدْيَةُ طَعَامِ مَسَكِينَ) من عجز عن الصوم يفدي، يعطي كل يوم مدا فقط (قَمَر تَطَوَّعَ خَيْرَا) بالزيادة على القدر المذكور (بَهُوَ) أي التطوع (خَيْرلَّةُ وَأَن تَصُومُوا خَيْرٌ لَكُمُوَ) من الإفطار والفدية وقت السفر والمرض (إِن كُنتُمْ تَعْلَمُونَ) أنه خير لكم فافعلوه. تلك الأيام (شَهْرٌ رَمَضَاتَ ألذِة أَنزِلَ هِيهِ الْفُرْءَالُ هُدىً …

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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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