Q 3:64 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِلَيٰ أَلَّا إِلَّا وَلَا بِهِۦ وَلَا مِّن فَإِن بِأَنَّا

Say: O People of the Scripture! Come to an agreement between us and you: that we shall worship none but Allah, and that we shall ascribe no partner unto Him, and that none of us shall take others for lords beside Allah. And if they turn away, then say: Bear witness that we are they who have surrendered (unto Him) — 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, ¶78 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللهم العن الكاذب في شأن عيسى، فقبلوا ذلك فدعا الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فاطمة واحتضن الحسين وقاد الحسن بيده وعلي يمشي خلفهم فقال: اخرجوا بأبنائكم ونسائكم، فقال لهم قسيسهم علمتم أنه هو النبي حقا الذي ذكر في التوراة إذا باهلتموه لا يبقى نصراني على وجه الأرض إلا وهلك فرجعوا، قالوا تركنا المباهلة قال لهم النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أسلموا، قالوا: لا، قال: إذًا أقاتلكم، قالوا: نصالحك على المال فصالحوه على ألفي حلة كل عام وثلاثين درعا يعطونه نصفا في صفر ونصفا في رجب 1. (إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ الْفَصَصُ الْحَقُّ وَمَا مِنِ إِلَهِ إِلَّ أللَّةُ وَإِنَّ اللَّةَ لَهُوَ الْعَزِيزُ الْحَكِيم بَإِن تَوَلَّوْا أعرضوا (فَإِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ عَلِيمُۢ بِالْمُفْسِدِينَۖ) فيجازيهم ( فُلْ يَأَهْلَ الْكِتَبِ) اليهود والنصارى ( تَعَالَوا اِلَىٰ كَلِمَةٍ سَوَآءٍ)

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 29, ¶143 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 100 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

( مَخْتلِفٌ الْوَنَهُ و فِيهِ شِعَآءُ لِلِنَّاس) من الأوجاع كما دل عليه التنكير، جاء رجل إلى الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم وقال له: أخي استطلق بطنه، قال له الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم: اسقه عسلا، فسقاه فقال: سقيته وم يزدد إلا استطلاقا، قال: اسقه عسلا، فسقاه قال: سقيته ولم يزدد إلا استطلاقا، قال: اسقه العسل صدق اللّٰه وكذب بطن أخيك،

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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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