Q 28:15 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَلَيٰ مِّنَ فِيهَا هَٰذَا مِن وَهَٰذَا مِنْ اُ۬لذِے مِن عَلَي اَ۬لذِے مِنْ مُوس۪يٰ عَلَيْهِۖ هَٰذَا مِنْ إِنَّهُۥ

And he entered the city at a time of carelessness of its folk, and he found therein two men fighting, one of his own caste, and the other of his enemies; and he who was of his caste asked him for help against him who was of his enemies. So Moses struck him with his fist and killed him. He said: This is of the devil's doing. Lo! he is an enemy, a mere misleader — 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-Qaṣaṣ begins at vol. 7, p. 114 (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 38, ¶83 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الذي سيكون ذهاب ملكي على يديه، قالت آسية لا1، هذا صبي لا يميز شيئا، لا فرق عنده بين الدينار والجمرة وإن شئت اختبره بذلك، فوضع فرعون جمرة ودينارا بين يدي موسى فأراد موسى أن يأخذ الدينار فدفع جبريل يده إلى الجمرة فأخذ الجمرة وجعلها في فيه، فكان هذا سبب لكنته في بدايته ( وَلَمَّا بَلَعَ أَشْدَّهُ ) وهو ثلاثون سنة أو ثلاث وثلاثون سنة صار هو ولي عهد فرعون، ابن فرعون يلبس لباس فرعون ويركب مراكب فرعون ويطيعه الناس كما يطيعون فرعون حتى بلغ ثلاثين سنة (وَاسْتَوىّ) بلغ أربعين سنة ( اتَيْنَٰهُ حُكما حكمة (وَعِلْما فقهاً في الدين قبل أن يبعث نبيا ( وَكَذَٰلِكَ)) كما جزيناه (نَجْزِے اِ۬لْمُحْسِنِينَۖ وَدَخَلَ اَ۬لْمَدِينَةَ) مدينة فرعون وهي مُنف بعد أن غاب عنها مدة (عَلَيٰ حِينِ غَفْلَةࣲ مِّنَ اَهْلِهَا) موسى مكث ثلاثين سنة عند فرعون وذهب إلى مدين أقام فيها عشر سنين، رجع وبعثه اللّٰه نبيا، فأتى ودعا فرعون إلى اللّه ثلاثين سنة فأغرق اللّٰه فرعون، وعاش بعد هلاك فرعون خمسين سنة فعمر موسى مائة وعشرون …

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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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