Q 3:135 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَالذِينَ إِذَا اَوْ وَمَنْ إِلَّا وَلَمْ عَلَيٰ مَا وَهُمْ

And those who, when they do an evil thing or wrong themselves, remember Allah and implore forgiveness for their sins - Who forgiveth sins save Allah only? - and will not knowingly repeat (the wrong) they did — 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 9, ¶92 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عمن ظلمهم التاركين عقوبتهم (وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِنِينَ) بهذه الأفعال أي يثيبهم، هذه الآية أيضا عمل فيها السلف الصالح أعمالا جليلة. كان الحسن بن علي عنده جواد يحبه جدا فأرسل غلاما له يسقيه ويغسله، يريد الخروج إلى سفر فأبطأ الغلام حتى استعجل الحسن فأتى بالجواد وقد عقره . عقر رجليه ولم يغسله بل لطخه بالدم. ولما جاء قال له الحسن: ما حملك على هذا؟ قال: أحب غضبك فقط. قال: الشيطان أغراك على هذا ولكن سأرغم أنفه، اللّٰه يقول تبارك وتعالى في كتابه "وَالْكَظِمِسَ أُلْغَيْظِ" وقد كظمت غيظي، قال له: ولكن القرآن زاد شيئا قال "وَالْعَامِينَ عَيِ ٱلنَّاسرٌ" قال: عفوت عنك، قال: "وَاللَّهُ يُحِبُّ الْمُحْسِنِينَ" قال: أنت حر في سبيل اللّٰه والجواد هدية مني إليك. الذين يكظمون الغيظ ويعفون عمن ظلمهم ويحسنون ثلاث صفات، من فضله قال ووَالذِيسَ إِذَا قَعَلُواْ مَحِشَةً) ذنبا قبيحا كالزنا ( آوْ ظَلَمُواْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ) بما دونه كالقبلة (ذَكَرُواْ أللَّهَ) وعيده (فَاسْتَغْفَرُواْ لِذُنُوبِهِمْۖ وَمَنْ …

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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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