Q 2:222 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَنِ هُوَ فِے وَلَا حَتَّيٰ فَإِذَا مِنْ إِنَّ

They question thee (O Muhammad) concerning menstruation. Say: It is an illness, so let women alone at such times and go not in unto them till they are cleansed. And when they have purified themselves, then go in unto them as Allah hath enjoined upon you. Truly Allah loveth those who turn unto Him, and loveth those who have a care for cleanness — 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, ¶55 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ولجمالها ولدينها فاظفر بذات الدين تربت يداك)[31] من أراد أن يتزوج فلينظر إلى ذات الدين ولو كانت دميمة فهي أفضل من جميلة لا دين لها، وإن كانت مملوكة أو معتوقة ديّنة فهي أفضل من نسيبة غنية لا دين لها. كان واحد من الصالحين عنده بنت بارعة فخطبها الرجال من كل النواحي وكان عنده عبد أسود يقال له مبارك، والد عبد اللّٰه بن المبارك، فدعاه وقال له أنا أشاورك بنتي بلغت سن التزويج وخطبها الرجال كلا وأنا أحب أن تشير لي برأي فيها، قال له العبد: أنت من العرب، العرب يختارون النسب الرفيع، وأهل زمانك يختارون الأموال، ونبيك يختار الدين فقط. فقال له: أختار ما اختار النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وما رأيت أحدا أحسن دينا منك عندي زوجتك إياها، هذا والد عبد اللّٰه بن المبارك الذي طبق الآفاق بالعلم (وَلا تُنكِحُواْ الْمُشْرِكِينَ) الكفار (حَتَّىٰ يُومِنُواْ وَلَعَبْدٌ مُومِنِّ خَيْرصِّ مُشْرِكِ وَلَوَ اعْجَبَكُمْ لماله وجماله (أَوْلَبِكَ) أهل الشرك (يَدْعُونَ إِلَى أَلنَّارِ) بدعائهم إلى العمل الموجب لها فلا تليق …

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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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