Q 26:63 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِلَيٰ مُوس۪يٰٓ أَنِ

Then We inspired Moses, saying: Smite the sea with thy staff. And it parted, and each part was as a mountain vast 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-Shuʿarāʾ begins at vol. 7, p. 52 (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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Exegesis of the verse

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 37, ¶28 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

شيء اكفني كل شيء (فَأَوْحَيْنَآ إِلَيٰ مُوس۪يٰٓ أَنِ اِ۪ضْرِب بِّعَصَاكَ اَ۬لْبَحْرَ) فضربه (قَانقَلَقَ) فانشق اثنا عشر فرقا (بَكَانَ كُلُّ بِرْفِ كَالطَّوْدِ ٱلْعَظِيمٌ) أوحى اللّٰه إلى موسى أن يضرب بعصاه البحر فضرب البحر فانفلق البحر انشق اثني عشر فجا وانكشف الماء وارتفع فوق كأنه جبل، بنو إسرائيل اثنا عشر سبطا فوجدوا اثني عشر طريقا في البحر يبسا فصار كل فرق على طريقهم، ولكن لما توسطوا البحر هؤلاء في طريق والبحر بينهم وبين أصحابهم شكوا قالوا: نجونا ولكن أصحابنا غرقوا فضرب موسى بعصاه فجعلت كُوى طاقات في الماء ينظر بعضهم إلى بعض حتى تيقنوا أنّهم جميعا نجوا، فلما توسط قوم موسى البحر وصل قوم فرعون إلى حافة البحر، فسألوا فرعون أين الطريق؟ قال: الطريق في البحر فقط كما فعل قوم موسى (وَأَزْلَعْنَا) قربنا ثَمَّ) هنالك ( الآخَرِينٌ) فرعون وقومه حتى سلكوا مسالكهم ( وَأَنجَيْنَا مُوسى وَمَى مَعَهُ أَجْمَعِيرَ) لما دخل قوم فرعون جميعا حتى لم يبق منهم أحد إلا فرعون وقف هو في ساحل البحر ينتظر

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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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