Q 2:25 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِ۬لذِينَ أَنَّ لَهُمْ مِن مِنْهَا مِن هَٰذَا اَ۬لذِے مِن بِهِۦ وَلَهُمْ فِيهَآ وَهُمْ فِيهَا

And give glad tidings (O Muhammad) unto those who believe and do good works; that theirs are Gardens underneath which rivers flow; as often as they are regaled with food of the fruit thereof, they say: this is what was given us aforetime; and it is given to them in resemblance. There for them are pure companions; there for ever they abide — 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 2, ¶36 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 59 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أصنامهم (أَعِدَّتْ) هيئت (لِلْكَهِرِينُ) يعذبون بها جملة (وَبَشَرٍ) أخبر (الذين ءامَنَوا) صدقوا بالله (وَعَبِلُواْ الصَّلِحَتِ) من الفروض والنوافل (آَنَّ لَهَمْ) بأن لهم جَنَّت حدائق ذات أشجار ومساكن (تَجْرِ مِن تَحْتِهَا)، تحت أشجارها وقصورها (الأنْهَٰر)) المياه فيها، المياه تتدفق في الجنة بلا حدود ولا آلات بل تجري مع السكان حيث احتاجوا إليها (كُلَّمَا رَزِقُوا مِنْهَا) أُطعِموا من تلك الجنة (من ثَمَرَةٍ رِزْفَاً فَالْوَا هَذٰ ألذ زرِفْنَا ص قَبْلَ وَأتُواْ بِهِ،) جيئوا بالرزق ( مُتَشٰبهًا وَلَهُمْ فِيهَا أُزْوَجِ) من الحوروغيرها، ورد أن أقل رجال الجنة نساء عنده ثمانية آلاف ثيب وأربعة آلاف بكر ومائة حوراء[13] (مطَهَرَةٌ) من الحيض وكل قذر (وَهُمْ فِيهَا خَٰلِدُونَ) وهم خالدون فيها، ماكثون فيها أبدا لا يفنون ولا يخرجون.

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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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