But then, if it is afterwards ascertained that both of them merit (the suspicion of) sin, let two others take their place of those nearly concerned, and let them swear by Allah, (saying): Verily our testimony is truer than their testimony and we have not transgressed (the bounds of duty), for them indeed we should be of the evil-doers — 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-Māʾida begins at vol. 3, p. 33(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 15, ¶70 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
العصر وأوقفهما وحلفا، كافران لم يباليا بالحلف حلفا بالله كذبا (فَإِنْ عُثِرَ عَلَيٰٓ أَنَّهُمَا اَ۪سْتَحَقَّآ إِثْماࣰ) وبعد زمن اطلع بعد حلفهما على أنهما كذبا، أقر تميم لما أسلم (بَاخَرَابِ بَقُوَلِ مَقَامَهُمَا مِنَ أَلذِيلَ اسْتُحِقَّ عَلَيْهِمْ الأَوْلَيَنِ) إذا يأتي الورثة فيقسمان بدل الكافرين من أقرباء الميت (جَيُفْسِمَسِ بِاللَّهِ لَشَهَدَتُنَآ أَحَقُّ صِ شَهَدَتِهِمَا وَمَا إَعْتَدَيْنَا إنَ إِذالَّمِنَ الظِّلِمِينَ)
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.