Q 2:216 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَلَيْكُمُ وَهُوَ لَّكُمْۖ أَن وَهُوَ لَّكُمْۖ أَن وَهُوَ لَّكُمْۖ وَأَنتُمْ لَا

Warfare is ordained for you, though it is hateful unto you; but it may happen that ye hate a thing which is good for you, and it may happen that ye love a thing which is bad for you. Allah knoweth, ye know not — 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, ¶22 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللَّهِ تَبْدِيلًا" (يَسْعَلَونَةَ مَاذَا يُنصِفُولَ) السائل عمرو بن الجموح[15] كان شيخا ذا مال فسأل النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم عن ماذا ينفق وعلى من ينفق «يَسْتَلُونَكَ» يا محد «مَاذًا يُنْعِفُونَ» الذي ينفقونه (قَل)) لهم (مَآ أَنفَقْتُم مِّنْ خَيْرࣲ) من أي مال فليل أو كثير هذا فيه بيان المنفَق الذي سأل عنه السائل وقَلِلّوالِدَيْنِ) أجاب عن المصرف الذي هو الشق الآخر (وَالأَقْرَبِينَ وَالْيَتَبِى وَالْمَسَكِينِ وَابْنِ السَّبِيلِ) الإنسان ينفق من مله ما قل أو كثر ما شاء فقط ومصرف الصدقات للوالدين والاقربين واليتامى والمساكين وابن السبيل هم أولى به (وَمَا تَمْعَلُواْ مِنْ خَيْرٍ) إنفاق أو غيره (فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ بِهِ عَلِيم) فمجاز عليه. والإنفاق كل ما أنفق الرجل يقول الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم لا تقصر عن شيء تقدر عليه ولو بشق تمرة[16] ولو بأن تفرغ الدلو في إناء أخيك ولو قابلته بكلمة طيبة وبشائة وجه[17] كل هذه صدقات ولو أن تسعى معه في حاجته قضيت أو لم تقض كل هذه صدقات. «وَمَا تَبْعَلُواْ …

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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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