And whoso is not able to afford to marry free, believing women, let them marry from the believing maids whom your right hands possess. Allah knoweth best (concerning) your faith. Ye (proceed) one from another; so wed them by permission of their folk, and give unto them their portions in kindness, they being honest, not debauched nor of loose conduct. And if when they are honourably married they commit lewdness they shall incur the half of the punishment (prescribed) for free women (in that case). This is for him among you who feareth to commit sin. But to have patience would be better for you. Allah is 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-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 11, ¶3 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مهورهن التي فرضتم لهن (فَرِيضَةً وَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا تَرْضَيْتُم) أنتم وهن ( به، مِنْ بَعْدِ الْقِبِضَةٍ) من حطها أو بعضها أو زيادة عليها. العوائد في النكاح كلما تراضى الزوج مع الزوجة فلا بأس بذلك وإِنَّ أللَّةَ كَانَ عَلِيماً) بخلقه (حَكِيماً)) فيما دبره (وَمَن لَّمْ يَسْتَطِعْ مِنكُمْ طَوْلاً) غنى (آن يَنكِحَ ألْمَحْصَنَتِ) الحرائر (الْمَومِنَٰتِ جَيس مَا عَلَكَنَ اَتَنُكُم) فلينكح الإماء (صِ فَتَيَٰتِكُمُ الْمَومِنَٰتْ) من الإماء المؤمنات (وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمَٰنِكُمۖ بَعْضُكُم مِّنۢ بَعْضࣲۖ) الإيمان شرط في نكاح المملوكات، والإيمان قلبي فلهذا ذكر سحانه وتعالى «وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمَنِكُم» فاكتفوا بظواهره وكلوا السرائر إليه فإنه العالم بتفصيلها، فرب أمة تفضل الحرة، وهذا تأنيس بنكاح الإماء، تزويج المملوكة، مملوكة الغير يجوز إذا عجز الإنسان عن تزويج حرة وخشي العنت، والصبر خير من تزويج المملوكة لأنك تصير ولدك إلى رق، وهذا مذهب مالك أن من عجز عن أن ينكح حرة وخشي …
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.