They ask thee for a pronouncement. Say: Allah hath pronounced for you concerning distant kindred. If a man die childless and he have a sister, hers is half the heritage, and he would have inherited from her had she died childless. And if there be two sisters, then theirs are two-thirds of the heritage, and if they be brethren, men and women, unto the male is the equivalent of the share of two females. Allah expoundeth unto you, so that ye err not. Allah is Knower of all things — 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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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 13, ¶66 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
أخْتّ) من أبويه أو أب {قَلَهَا نِصْفُ مَا تَرَكَّ ترث من أخيها النصف (وَهُوَ) الأخ (يَرِثَّهَا إن لَمْ يَكّر لَهَا وَلَتَ فإن كان لها ولد ذكر فلا شيء له أو أنثى فله ما فضل عن نصيبها، ولو كانت الأخت أو الأخ من أمِّ وفرضه السدس كما تقدم أول السورة وقَإن كَانَتَا) الأختان (إثْنَتَيْنِ) فصاعدا لأنّها نزلت في جابر وقد مات عن أخوات 1 (بَلَهْمَا التُّلْقَرِ مِمَّا تَرَكٍّ وَإِن كَانُوا الورثة (إِخْوَةَ رِجَالًا وَنِسَاءَ فَلِلذَّكَرِ مِثْلُ حَظِّ الأَنثَيَيْنِ يُبَيِّنُ أَللَّهُ لَكُمُ ) شرائع دينكم (أَن تَضِلُّوا) أن لا تضلوا وَاللَّهُ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ عَلِيمٌ) ومنه الميراث، نزلت في جابر 2 مات ليس له ولد ولا والد. قال سعد بن أبي وقاص يا رسول اللّٰه أنا أترك
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 13, ¶67 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
كتاب تفسير القرآن/ باب قوله يوصيكم اللّٰه في أولادكم (4577). وأخرجه مسلم من رواية حجاج بن محمد عن ابن جريج، كتاب الفرائض/ باب ميراث الكلالة (3032). قال في العجاب في بيان الأسباب ج842/2 وقد اختلف الرواة عن ابن المنكدر فالأكثر أبهموا الآية وكشفها ابن جريج وابن عبينة فممن أبهمها سفيان الثوري ولفظه نزلت آية الميراث وكذا قال شعبة وقال مرة آية الفرض، فأما ابن عيينة فقال حتى نزلت يستفتونك الآية.
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.