Q 28:26 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّ مَنِ

One of the two women said: O my father! Hire him! For the best (man) that thou canst hire in the strong, the trustworthy — 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, ¶97 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أرجعي إليه وقولي له ياتيني. (فَجَآءَتْهُ إِحْد۪يٰهُمَا تَمْشِے عَلَي اَ۪سْتِحْيَآءࣲۖ) رجعت واضعة كم درعها على وجهها حياء منه، المرأة إذا أحبت رجلا استحيت منه وهذه المرأة أحبت موسى فأرت ذلك بحيائها (قَالَتِ إنَّ أَبِي يَدْعُوكَ لِيَجْزِيَكَ أَجْرَ مَا سَفَيْتَ لَتَاك فأجابَها منكرا في نفسه أخذ الأجرة كأنّها قصدت المكافأة إن كان ممن يريدها، فمشت بين يديه فجعلت الريح تضرب ثوبَها فتكشف ساقيها قال لها: امشي خلفي ودليني على الطريق ففعلت إلى أن جاء أباها وهو شعيب عليه السلام وعنده عشاء فقال له: اجلس فتعش، قال: أخاف أن يكون عوضا عما سقيت لهما، وإنا أهل بيت لا نطلب على عمل خير عوضا، هذا في بداية أمر موسى. قال: لا، عادتي وعادة آبائي نقري الضيف ونطعم الطعام. لا يمنعك عمل الخير من أن تأكل ضيافتي، فأكل موسى وأخبره بحاله وقَلَمَّا جَآءَهُو وَفَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الْفَصَصَ) ما صدر منه قتله القبطي وقصدهم قتله وخوفه من فرعون (قَالَ لا تَخَفْ نَجَوْتَ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّلِمِينَ) إذ لا سلطان لفرعون على …

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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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