Q 2:221 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَا حَتَّيٰ مِّن وَلَوَ وَلَا حَتَّيٰ مِّن وَلَوَ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ إِلَي إِلَي لَعَلَّهُمْ

Wed not idolatresses till they believe; for lo! a believing bondwoman is better than an idolatress though she please you; and give not your daughters in marriage to idolaters till they believe, for lo! a believing slave is better than an idolater though he please you. These invite unto the Fire, and Allah inviteth unto the Garden, and unto forgiveness by His grace, and expoundeth His revelations to mankind that haply they may remember — 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, ¶53 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الإنفاق على اليتيم قول الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: (من صنع طعاما وأحضر معه يتيما وجبت له الجنة)[29] وقوله: (أنا وكافل اليتيم كهاتين في الجنة)[30] وأشار بالسبابة والوسطى وكيف يفعل المرء إذا كفل اليتيم هل يضربه تأديبا أو لا يضربه لأنه ورد وعيد شديد في ضرب اليتيم، ولكن ليس هذا في الضرب لتربيته وإصلاحه فإنه رب لكمة خير اليتيم من لقمة حلوة أكلها. فمن ضربه تأديبا وطلبا لاستقامته فلا حرج في ذلك ولا إثم ومن ضرب اليتيم لضعفه فقط فذلك هو الآم (وَلَا تَنْكِحُواْ أُلْمَشْرِكَتِ حَتَّىٰ يَومِنَّ ) سبِب فروطا كان واحد من الصحابة تزوج بأمة وهو عبد اللّٰه بن رواحة وحذيفة بن اليمان كلافما كان يملك أمة فأعتقها وتزوج بِها فعير بذلك لم لا يتزوج حرة كفء له (وَلا تَنكِحْوا الْمُشْرِكِّتِ) الكافرات (حَتَّىٰ يُومِنُّ) حرام تزويج المسلم للكافر (وَلَامَةٌ مُومِنَةٌ خَيْرِ صِ مُشْرِكَةٍ) حرة (وَلَوْ اعْجَبَتْكُمْ)) لجمالها ومالها وهذا مخصوص بغير الكتابيات بآة

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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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