Q 3:13 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

قَدْ لَكُمُۥٓ فِے فِے مَنْ اِ۪نَّ فِے ذَٰلِكَ لِّأُوْلِے

There was a token for you in two hosts which met: one army fighting in the way of Allah, and another disbelieving, whom they saw as twice their number, clearly, with their very eyes. Thus Allah strengtheneth with His succour whom He will. Lo! herein verily is a lesson for those who have eyes — 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 Āl ʿImrān begins at vol. 2, p. 34 (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 7, ¶87 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وستة أدرع وثمانية سيوف أكثرهم رجالة، هذا جيش النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وَأخْرِىْ كَابِرَةٌ تَرَوْنَهُم مِثْلَيْهِمْ) أي المسلمين أكثر من الكفار وكانوا نحو ألف، قريش ألف أو تسعمائة[60] والله ذكر أنه في بداية الأمر يقللهم في أعينكم ويقللكم في أعينهم كما يأتي في سورة الأنفال - هذا في البداية - وفي النهاية جعل الكفار ينظرون إلى المسلمين كأنّهم ألفان ليزدادوا خوفا منهم، ألا تكفي هذه عبرة؟ جماعة من الشجعان، ألف، كلهم مدرب على الحرب عنده سيف وعنده فرس وعنده نفقة كافية، وثلاثمائة ليس عندهم من السلاح إلا ثمانية سيوف وليس عندهم من المراكب إلا فرسان فرس الزبير وفرس المقداد فقط، فالتقوا فخافوهم أي ذوو الألف حتى رأوهم مثليهم (رَأْىَ الْعَيْرِ) وهذه مشاهدة، خلق اللّٰه ذلك فشاهدوهم عيانا وهم كأنّهم ألفان (وَاللَّهُ يُوَ۬يِّدُ بِنَصْرِهِۦ مَنْ يَّشَآءُۖ اِ۪نَّ فِے ذَٰلِكَ لَعِبْرَةࣰ لِّأُوْلِے اِ۬لَابْصٰ۪رِۖ) هذه غزوة بدر وقعت في شوال في العام الثاني من الهجرة، بعد عام من الهجرة، دعا الرسول صلى …

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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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