Sūrat Ṣād · 38 : 34

Q 38:34 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَقَدْ سُلَيْمَٰنَ عَلَيٰ ثُمَّ

And verily We tried Solomon, and set upon his throne a (mere) body. Then did he repent — 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 Ṣād begins at vol. 8, p. 113 (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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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 43, ¶81 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

على كرسيه» و (قَالَ رَبّ إعْمِرْ لِ وَهَبْ لِ مُلْكَالاً يَنْبَغِ لَاحَدِمِن بَعْدِى ) سواي (إئَّكَ أَنت ألْوَهَابَّ قصة سليمان ذكر القرآن أنه فتن سليمان وألقى على كرسيه جسدا وهو الصخر الجني على ما قال المفسر 1: كان سليمان سر مملكته في خاتمه إذا لبسه تبعه الإنس والجن والطير وإذا نزعه بقي مجرد إنسان فقط، وكان لا يدخل الخلاء بهذا الخاتم ويوم من الأيام نزع الخاتم وأودعه عند زوجته أمينة فدخل الخلاء فجاء جني تشكل بصورة سليمان فطلب الخاتم فدفعته له فلبسه فتبعه الإنس والجن والطير فجلس على كرسيه فرجع سليمان فسألها قالت إنك أخذت الخاتم، فعلم سليمان أن هذه بلية من اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى فجلس يتعبد حتى مضى أربعون يوما فطار الجني وألقى الخاتم في البحر فابتلعته سمكة فاشترت زوجته سمكة لفطور سليمان، فلما شقت بطن السمكة وجدت الخاتم فغسل فلبسه سليمان وتبعه الإنس والجن فرجع ووجد الجن جمعوا كثيرا من السحر وقالوا إن سليمان كان يشتغل بِهذا ويقهركم به فدفنوا ذلك تحت كرسيه وصرح لهم بالحق. هذا ابتلاء من اللّٰه …

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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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