Q 24:6 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَالذِينَ وَلَمْ لَّهُمْ اِ۪لَّآ إِنَّهُۥ لَمِنَ

As for those who accuse their wives but have no witnesses except themselves; let the testimony of one of them be four testimonies, (swearing) by Allah that he is of those who speak the truth — 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, ¶93 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وما أراد أن يرجمه فقط. (وَالذِينَ يَرْمُونَ أَرْوَجَهُمْ) بالزنا ( وَلَمْ يَكُل لَهَمْ شَهَدَآءَ إِلَّ أَجْسهُمْ قَشَهَدَةُ أَحْدِهِمْ و أَرْبَعَ شَهَدَاتٍ سبب نزول هذه الآية أن الآية الأولى لما نزلت جاء عاصم بن عدي من الأنصار وقال يارسول اللّٰه أحدنا إذا وجد رجلا على بطن زوجته، إن ذهب يطلب أربعة شهداء قضى الرجل حاجته وذهب، وإن تكلم جلد وإن سكت سكت على حرارة شديدة وغيظ شديد ما نفعل؟ قال رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: الأمر كما قالت الآية أربعة شهداء. فذهب فأتى عويمر العجلاني إلى عاصم بن عدي قال له: يا عاصم أنا وجدت شريك بن سحماء بطنه على بطن زوجتي واستبرأتُها أربعة أشهر ما أتيتها وها هي حبلى هذا الحمل ليس مني، فرجع عاصم إلى رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وقال: سبحان اللّه ما أسرع ما ابتلاني اللّه به سؤالي وجدت هذا في أهلي، قص القصة على رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فأرسل رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم إلى عويمر وإلى زوجته خولة فقال: يا عويمر اتق اللّٰه ولا تقذف زوجتك بغير …

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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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