Q 4:102 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذَا فِيهِمْ لَهُمُ مِّنْهُم مَّعَكَ فَإِذَا مِنْ لَمْ مَعَكَ اَ۬لذِينَ لَوْ عَنَ عَلَيْكُم وَلَا عَلَيْكُمُۥٓ إِن بِكُمُۥٓ مِّن اَوْ أَن إِنَّ

And when thou (O Muhammad) art among them and arrangest (their) worship for them, let only a party of them stand with thee (to worship) and let them take their arms. Then when they have performed their prostrations let them fall to the rear and let another party come that hath not worshipped and let them worship with thee, and let them take their precaution and their arms. Those who disbelieve long for you to neglect your arms and your baggage that they may attack you once for all. It is no sin for you to lay aside your arms, if rain impedeth you or ye are sick. But take your precaution. Lo! Allah prepareth for the disbelievers shameful punishment 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-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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 12, ¶26 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 198 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جِدْرَهُمْ وَأسْلِحَتَهُمْ معهم إلى أن تقضوا الصلاة، وقد فعل صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كذلك ببطن نخل، رواه الشيخان. (وَدَّ ألذِيلَ كَبَرُواْ لَوْ تَغْفُلّونَ سبب هذا أن الكفار ودوا أي فوا لو تغفلون إذا قمتم إلى الصلاة (عَنَ اَسْلِحَتِكُمْ وَأَمْتِعَتِكُمْ فَيَمِيلُونَ عَلَيْكُم مَّيْلَةࣰ وَٰحِدَةࣰۖ) بأن يحملوا عليكم فيأخذوكم (وَلاَ جَتَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ إِن كَانَ بِكْمََّ أَذتى مِ مَطَرِ أوْ كَشْم مَرْضِىَ أَى تَصَعُوَاْ أَسْلِحَتَكُمْ فلا تحملوها (وَخَذُوْ حِدْرَكُمّةٌ إِلّ اللَّهُ أَعَدّ لْكَرِينَ غَدَّاباً مُهِينا) ذا إهانة. كان الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم في غزوة بني أنمار فلما هزم اللّٰه أعداء اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى خرج الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وحده وتجاوز الوادي، وكانت السماء ترش مطرا خفيفا حتى صار بعيدا من أصحابه، فجلس تحت شجرة يقضي حاجته، فنظر إليه غورث واحد من الكفار من بني أنمار وقال هذا الرسول وحده معتزلا عن أصحابه، قتلني اللّٰه إن لم أقتله اليوم فأخذ سيفه وأتى إلى الرسول صلى 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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