Q 47:16 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمِنْهُم مَّنْ إِلَيْكَ حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَا مِنْ لِلذِينَ مَاذَا ا۟وْلَٰٓئِكَ اَ۬لذِينَ عَلَيٰ

Among them are some who give ear unto thee (Muhammad) till, when they go forth from thy presence they say unto those who have been given knowledge: What was that he said just now? Those are they whose hearts Allah hath sealed, and they follow their own lusts — 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 Muḥammad begins at vol. 9, p. 42 (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 46, ¶145 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أهل النار يعذبون بالنار مع شدة حرقهم يعذبون بالجوع والعطش وكلما طلبوا طعاما يؤتون بطعام إذا أكلوه تقطعت أمعاؤهم من شدة الحر، وإذا طلبوا شرابا أعطوا ماء حميما يشوي الوجوه إذا استقبله الوجه سقط جلد الوجه عليه من شدة حرارته وإذا شربوه قطع أمعاءهم (وَمِنْهُم) كفار مكة (مَنْ يَسْتَمِعْ إِلَيْكَ) في خطبة الجمعة وهم المنافقون (حَتَّيٰٓ إِذَا خَرَجُواْ مِنْ عِندِكَ قَالُواْ لِلذِينَ أُوتُواْ اُ۬لْعِلْمَ) علماء الصحابة (مَاذَا قَالَ ءَانِماً المنافقون يحضرون مجلس النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم ولا يضبطون شيئا من كلامه لعدم حضور قلوبهم في ذلك وإذا خرجوا يقولون «مَاذًا فَالَ ءانِهاً» يستهزئون بهذا (ا۟وْلَٰٓئِكَ اَ۬لذِينَ طَبَعَ اَ۬للَّهُ عَلَيٰ قُلُوبِهِمْ وَاتَّبَعُوٓاْ أَهْوَآءَهُمْۖ) فعلى هذا الإنسان إذا جلس في مجلس القرآن لا يخرج بحاله أبدا لابد أن يخرج بزيادة إيمان أو بنقصانه (وَالذِينَ إهْتَدَوْأَه وهم المؤمنون (زَادَهُمْ ) الّه ( هُدىً وَءَاتِيْهُمْ تَفْوِيهُمْ ألهمهم ما يتقون به ( جَهَلْ …

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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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