Q 2:236 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَّا عَلَيْكُمُۥٓ إِن مَا لَمْ أَوْ لَهُنَّ عَلَي وَعَلَي عَلَي

It is no sin for you if ye divorce women while yet ye have not touched them, nor appointed unto them a portion. Provide for them, the rich according to his means, and the straitened according to his means, a fair provision. (This is) a bounden duty for those who do good — 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, ¶88 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أول من قال سبحان اللّٰه الملائكة حملة العرش، وأول من قال الحمد لله آدم عليه السلام، وأول من قال لا إله إلا اللّٰه نوح عليه السلام، وأول من قال اللّٰه أكبر إبراهيم، هي الباقيات الصالحات وأول من قال لاحول ولا قوة إلا بالله العلي العظيم محمد رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم.[48] أصل خلقة آدم أربعون سنة ثلاث مرات فلهذا يخلق ابن آدم في بطن أمه أربعين يوما نطفة وأربعين يوما علقة وأربعين يوما مضغة ثم ينفخ فيه الروح[49] أربعون ثلاث مرات أربعة أشهر. والعدة شرعت لصون الأنساب حتى لا تختلط؛ إذا مات الرجل جلست المرأة أربعة أشهر إذا كانت حاملا لابد أن يتبين الحمل لأنه ينفخ فيه الروح والروح إذا وقع ربما يقع خفيفا في بداية الأمر ولكن إن زاد عشرة أيام لابد أن يتحرك جدا فزيد عشرة أيام على أربعة أشهر فهذه عدة المتوفى عنها زوجها إلا إذا كانت حاملا إذا وضعت حملها فقد برئ رحمها. ولاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمُوَ إِى طَلَّفْتُمُ أُلنِّسَاءَ مَا لَمْ تَمَسُّوهُنَّ) أي تجامعوهن (أَوْ تَفْرِضُواْ لَهُنَّ فَرِيضَةࣰۖ) …

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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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