Sūrat Āl ʿImrān · 3 : 65

Q 3:65 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لِمَ فِےٓ إِبْرَٰهِيمَۖ وَمَآ اِ۬لتَّوْر۪يٰةُ وَالِانجِيلُ إِلَّا مِنۢ أَفَلَا

O People of the Scripture! Why will ye argue about Abraham, when the Torah and the Gospel were not revealed till after him? Have ye then no sense — 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, ¶79 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

مستو أمرها (بَيْنَنَا وَبَيْنَكْمُو هي (أَلَّ نَعْبُدَ إِلَّ اللَّهَ وَلَا نُشْرِكَ بِهِ شَيْاً وَلَا يَتَّخِذَّ بَعْضُنَا بَعْضاً أَرْبَاباً صِ دُودِ اللَّه بَإِن تَوَلَّوْا أعرضوا عن التوحيد جَفُولُوا) أنتم: (إشْهَدْواْ بِأَنَّا مَسْلِمُونَ) موحدون. (يَأَهْلَ الْكِتَٰبِ لِمَ تُحَآجُّونَ مِتِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ) نزلت لما قال اليهود إن إبراهيم يهودي وقال النصارى إن إبراهيم نصراني، «يَٰٓأَهْلَ اَ۬لْكِتَٰبِ لِمَ تُحَآجُّونَ» تخاصمون في إبراهيم بزعمكم أنه على دينكم (وَمَا انْزِلَتِ التَّوْرِيَةُ وَالإنجِيلُ إِلاَّ مِنْ بَعْدِهِ بزمن طويل، اليهودية نشأت من التوراة والتوراة نزلت بعد إبراهيم والإنجيل نزل على عيسى بعد إبراهيم والنصرانية نشأت من الإنجيل (أَوَلا تَعْفِلُونُ) هذا، من هنا خرج التاريخ من كتاب الله، احتج عليهم بالتاريخ (هَآنتُمْ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ حَٰجَجْتُمْ فِيمَا لَكُم بِهِۦ عِلْمࣱ) من أمر موسى وعيسى ( جَلِمَ تُحَاجُّونَ فِيمَا لَيْسَ لَكْم بِهِ عِلْمُ وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمْ شأنه (وَأَنتُمْ …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 8, ¶86 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 46 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بنسبة ذلك إليه (وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ) أنّهم كاذبون ( تَلِى مَىَ آوْجِىٰ بِعَهْدِهِ) الذي عاهد اللّٰه عليه (وَاتَّفِى) اتقى اللّٰه (فَإِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يُحِبُّ اُ۬لْمُتَّقِينَۖ إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ يَشْتَرُونَ) يستبدلون (بِعَهْدِ اللَّهِ) أمانته (وَأَيْمَنِهِمْ) حلفهم كاذبين (لَمَناً فَلِيلًا) من أمر الدنيا (اوْلِءِكَ لا خَلَّقَ)

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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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