Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 157

Q 4:157 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّا عِيسَي مَرْيَمَ ۞وَمَا وَمَا وَلَٰكِن لَهُمْۖ وَإِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ فِيهِ لَفِے مِّنْهُۖ مَا لَهُم بِهِۦ مِنْ اِلَّا وَمَا

And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah's messenger - they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain — 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 13, ¶13 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللّٰه (بَعَبَوْنَا عَى ذَلِكَ) ولم نستأصلهم، ما أهلكناهم ( وَاتَيْنَا مُوسِىٰ سُلْطَناً مُبِينام تسلطا بينا ظاهرا عليهم حيث أمرهم بقتل أنفسهم توبة فأطاعوه (وَرَبَعْنَا قَوْفَهُمْ الطُورَ) الجبل (بِمِيتَفِهِمْ لما نزل التوراة امتنعوا من العمل به، فقلع جبريل جبل الطور قدر معسكرهم فدعاهم إلى العمل بالتوراة وإلا طبقه عليهم وَقُلْنَا لَهُمْ) وهو مظل عليهم أدْخُلُواْ أَلْبَابَ) أي القرية (سُجَّدا سجود انحناء (وَقُلْنَا لَهُمْ لا تَعَدُّوا بِي السَّبْتٌ) لا تعتدوا في السبت باصطياد الحيتان فيه (وَأَخَذْنَا مِنْهُم مِيثَفاً غَلِيظام على ذلك فنقضوه. هذه القصص كلا تقدمت في سورة البقرة فلهذا اقتضبها، يأخذ جملة ويقتصر حتى عدّد الأنواع كلا (بِمَا نَفْضِهِم) لعنّاهم بسبب نقضهم (مِيئَفَهُمْ وَكُبْرِهِم بِئَايَاتِ اللَّهِ وَفَثْلِهِمْ الاَنْبِيَّاءَ بِغَيْرِ حَقِّ ظلما (وَفَوْلِهِمْ) للنبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ((فُلُوبُنَا غُلْفُ لا تعي كلامك (بَلْ طَبَعَ اللَّه ختم اللّٰه (عَلَيْهَا بِكُبْرِهِمْ) فلا …

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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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