Q 24:2 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِّنْهُمَا وَلَا بِهِمَا فِے إِن مِّنَ

The adulterer and the adulteress, scourge ye each one of them (with) a hundred stripes. And let not pity for the twain withhold you from obedience to Allah, if ye believe in Allah and the Last Day. And let a party of believers witness their punishment — 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-Nūr begins at vol. 6, p. 190 (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 35, ¶83 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جلّده ضرب جلده، ويزاد على ذلك بالسنة تغريب عام والرقيق على النصف مما ذكر (وَلاَ تاخَذُكُم بِهِمَا رَأْفَةٌ فِى دِين اللَّهِ) حكمه بأن تتركوا شيئا من حدهما، يقول الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم: يجاء بوال يوم القيامة نقص سوطا من الحد، فيقال له لم نقصت هذا لسوط؟ قال: رحمة به، فيقال له: أنت أرحم مني بعبدي؟ اذهبوا به إلى النار، ويؤتى بوال زاد سوطا واحدا يقال له: لم زدت هذا السوط؟ قال لملا ينتهكوا محارم الله، قيل له: أنت أغير مني؟ اذهبوا به إلى النار1 (إِن كُنتُمْ تُومِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الآَخِرِ) الجلد هو الذي ثبت في المصحف والرجم نسخت تلاوته وبقي حكمه، والسلطان فيه كما سألتم شرط، فعلى هذا من وجب عليه الرجم ولم يجد سلطانا يقيم عليه الحد وهو لا يجوز له أن يقتل نفسه ولا غيره، الشريعة التي أوجبت عليه الرجم أسقطته فليتب إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى والأمر

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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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