Q 2:207 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمِنَ مَنْ

And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah; and Allah hath compassion on (His) bondmen — 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 6, ¶11 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

قطيعا من الإبل أو قطيعا من البقر أو الغنم، وإذا تفكرت في السباع وفي الكلاب وحتى في القطط تجدها تلد في السنة مرتين في كل مرة تلد ثمانية أولاد، والناس م يشتغلوا بذبحها ولا ببيعها ولا ترى كثيرا منها أبدا، لو لقيت خمسة من الكلاب لقلت هذا كثير من الكلاب، وتجد مائة بقرة وتجد مائة من الغنم، لولا أن البركة نزلت فى الأنعام ما كان هذا، فلهذا هذا المنافق عاكس اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى حيث اشتغل بهلاك الحرث والأنعام «وَإِذَا قِيَلَ لَه إِنَّوِ اللَّهَ أَخَذَتْهُ أُلْعِزَّةُ» هذا غاية في الكبر، من قيل له اتق اللّٰه ولم يتواضع فهو متكي، فلهذا قبل لعمر اتق اللّه فعفر خده رضي اللّه عنه على الأرض تواضعا لله تعالى ([9]وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَنْ يَشْرِى نَفْسَهُ) هو صهيب الرومي صاحب رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كان بمكة ولما هاجر الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم خرج إلى الهجرة معه ثمانية نفر فتلقاهم الكفار وقتلوا أصحابه كلا حتى بقي هو تعرضوا له ليمنعوه من الهجرة وكان عنده كنانة مملوءة من السهام قال لهم: يا قوم لقد …

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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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