Q 33:5 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

هُوَ فَإِن لَّمْ فِے عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَآ بِهِۦۖ وَلَٰكِن مَّا

Proclaim their real parentage. That will be more equitable in the sight of Allah. And if ye know not their fathers, then (they are) your brethren in the faith, and your clients. And there is no sin for you in the mistakes that ye make unintentionally, but what your hearts purpose (that will be a sin for you). Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful — 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 Al-Aḥzāb begins at vol. 7, p. 218 (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

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 40, ¶71 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 195 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

صاحب لرسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، كذلك أبو قحافة عثمان ولد أبا بكر، أبو بكر ولد عبد الرحمن، عبد الرحمن ولد محمد بن عبد الرحمن كلهم صحابي «جَال لَمْ تَعْلَمْوا دَا بَءَ هُمْ إِحْوَنُكُمْ فِي الدِّيِ وَمَوَلِيكُمْ» (وَلَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جَنَاحٌ فِيمَآ أَخْطَأْتُم بِهِ) كانوا تعودوا أن يقولوا زيد بن محمد حتى ربما جرى على لسان أحد بعد النهي، هذا ليس فيه جناح (وَلَٰكِن مَّا تَعَمَّدَتْ قُلُوبُكُمْۖ) ولكن من تعمد أن يقول زيد بن محمد بعد هذا فهذا منهي عنه (وَكَاتَ اللَّهُ غَبُوراً) لما كان من قولكم قبل النهي (رَحِيماً) بكم في ذلك التَّمِ صلى اللّه عليه وسلم (أَوْلِى بِالْمُومِنِينَ مِنَ انمُسِهِمْ) فيما دعاهم إليه ودعتهم أنفسهم إلى خلافه. إذا أمر النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم بشيء ودعت النفس إلى شيء آخر فعليك بما قال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. النبي أولى بكل مؤمن من نفسه. كان يقول (أنا أولى بالمؤمنين من أنفسهم من مات وترك مالا فماله لورثته ومن ترك دينا فعلي دينه) ( وَأَزْوَاجُهُ وَ …

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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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