Q 29:46 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞وَلَا إِلَّا بِالتِے هِيَ إِلَّا اَ۬لذِينَ مِنْهُمْۖ بِالذِےٓ إِلَيْنَا إِلَيْكُمْ وَنَحْنُ لَهُۥ

And argue not with the People of the Scripture unless it be in (a way) that is better, save with such of them as do wrong; and say: We believe in that which hath been revealed unto us and revealed unto you; our Allah and your Allah is One, and unto Him we surrender — 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-ʿAnkabūt begins at vol. 7, p. 145 (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 39, ¶48 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 145 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

( وَلَا تُجَدِلُواْ أَهْلَ الْكِتَبِ)) نزلت هذه الآية في مجادلة بعض المسلمين الكفار «وَلَا تُجَٰدِلُوٓاْ أَهْلَ اَ۬لْكِتَٰبِ» (إِلاَّ بِالتِى) إلا بالمجادلة التي (هِىَ أَحْسَنْ) كالدعاء إلى اللّٰه بآياته والتنبيه على حججه (إِلَّ الذِيرَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ بأن حاربوا وأبوا أن يقروا بالجزية فجادلوهم بالسيف حتى يسلموا أو يعطوا الجزية ( وَفُولُوا لمن قبل الإقرار بالجزية إذا أخبروكم بشيء بما في كتبهم (ءَامَنَّا بِالذِےٓ أُنزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَأُنزِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ) كانوا ربما يقولون لهم شيئا فيكذبُهم المسلمون فيقولون: هذا في كتاب اللّٰه أنتم تكذبون التوراة، نهاهم اللّٰه عن ذلك «فُولُواْ ءَامَنَّا بِالذت أُنْزِلَ إِلَيْنَا وَأْنزِلَ إِلَيْكُمْ» ولا تصدقوهم ولا تكذبوهم لأتَّهم ربما زادوا في التوراة وربما نقصوا، إذا إن صدقتموهم وذلك ليس من عند اللّه فهذا كذب أو كذبتم شيئا أتى من عند

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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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