Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 59

Q 4:59 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ وَأُوْلِے مِنكُمْۖ فَإِن فِے إِلَي إِن ذَٰلِكَ

O ye who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the messenger and those of you who are in authority; and if ye have a dispute concerning any matter, refer it to Allah and the messenger if ye are (in truth) believers in Allah and the Last Day. That is better and more seemly in the end — 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 11, ¶74 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

مَسْكُوبٍ" (اِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يَامُرُكُمُۥٓ أَن تُوَ۬دُّواْ اُ۬لَامَٰنَٰتِ إِلَيٰٓ أَهْلِهَا) نزلت هذه الآية في فتح مكة لما أخذ علي رضي اللّٰه عنه مفتاح الكعبة من عثمان بن طلحة الحجبي سادنها قسرا؛ لما قدم النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم مكة عام الفتح منعه وقال: لو علمت أنه رسول اللّٰه لم أمنعه، فأمر الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم برده إليه، وقال: هاك خالدة تالدة، فعجب من ذلك وقرأ عليه الآية فأسلم، ثم أعطاه عند موته لأخيه شيبة فبقي في ولده إلى يومنا هذاا، والآية وإن وردت على سبب خاص فعمومها معتبر بقرينة الجمع إِلَّ أللَّهَ يَامُرُكُمُو أَن تُؤَدُّوا ألاَمَنَٰتِ إِلَى أَهْلِهَا) اللّٰه يأمر عباده بتأدية الأمانات إلى أهلها (وَإذَا حَكَمْتُم بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَن تَحْكُمُوا بِالْعَدْلِ) أمر بالعدالة (إِنَّ اللَّهَ نِعِمَّا يَعِظَكُم بِهِ ) تأدية الأمانة والحكم بالعدل (إِلَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ سَمِيعاً لما يقال (بَصيرا بما يُفعل. الأمانة أقسام: قسم بين العبد وبين ربه، وقسم بين العبد وبين نفسه وقسم بين …

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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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