Q 3:39 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَهُوَ فِے أَنَّ مِّنَ مِّنَ

And the angels called to him as he stood praying in the sanctuary: Allah giveth thee glad tidings of (a son whose name is) John, (who cometh) to confirm a word from Allah lordly, chaste, a prophet of the righteous 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 8, ¶59 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فلما نظر زكرياء في حال مريم علم أن القادر على الإتيان بهذا في هذا الوقت قادر على أن يهب الولد في الكبر (هُنَالِكَ دَعَا زَكَرِيَّاءُ رَبَّهُو لما دخل المحراب في الليل للصلاة في جوف الليل (قَالَ رَبِّ هَبْ لِے مِن لَّدُنكَ) من عندك ذُرِّيَّةَ طَيِّبَةً) ولدا صالحا (اِنَّكَ سَمِيعُ اُ۬لدُّعَآءِۖ فَنَادَتْهُ اُ۬لْمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ) أي جبريل (وَهُوَ فَآئِمٌ يُصَلِّ مِ الْمِحْرَابِ) في المسجد ( أَنَّ أللَّهَ يُبَشِّرُكَ بِيَحْيِى مُصَدِّقاً بِكَلِمَةٍ مِىَ اللَّهِ الكلمة هي عيسى عليه الصلاة والسلام أبناء خالة (وَسَيِّدا) متبوعا (وَحَصُوراً) ممنوعا من النساء لا عجزا ولكن منع نفسه وَنَبِيّئاً صِ الصَّلِحِينٌ قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُولُ لِ غُلَم ولد وَقَدْ بَلَغَنِي أَلْكِبَرْ) أي بلغت نهاية السن مائة وعشرين سنة ( وَامْرَأَتِ عَافِر) بلغت ثمانية وتسعين سنة فَلَ) الأمر (كَذَّلِكَ)

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 8, ¶66 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

مسلم: كتاب فضائل الصحابة/ باب فضائل خديجة أم المؤمنين (4459)

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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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