Sūrat Al-Māʾida · 5 : 4

Q 5:4 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَاذَآ لَهُمْۖ لَكُمُ وَمَا مِّنَ مِمَّا مِمَّآ عَلَيْكُمْ عَلَيْهِۖ إِنَّ

They ask thee (O Muhammad) what is made lawful for them. Say: (all) good things are made lawful for you. And those beasts and birds of prey which ye have trained as hounds are trained, ye teach them that which Allah taught you; so eat of that which they catch for you and mention Allah's name upon it, and observe your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is swift to take account — 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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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, ¶95 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

في تلك الوقفة أخبر الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم بكل ما كان وما سيكون إلى يوم القيامة حتى آخر مولود يولد فتقوم الساعة ذكره الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. كان الصحابة يقولون: كنا إذا تجدد شيء نعرفه من مقالة الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كما تنسى شخصا غاب عنك فإذا حضر عندك تتذكره، كلما جاء شيء نتذكره فقط مما أخبرنا به الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم 2 (جَمَنْ أصْطَرّ بِي مَخْمَصَةٍ) مجاعة إلى أكل شيء مما حرم عليه فاكل ( غَيْرَ مُتَجَانِبٍ مائل لاثْمِ معصية وقَإِنَّ اللَّهَ غَقُور) له ما أكل ورَّحِيمَ) به في إباحته (يَسْـَٔلُونَكَ مَاذَآ أُحِلَّ لَهُمْۖ) من الطعام (فُلْ احِلَّ لَكُمُ الطَّيِّبَاتُ) المستلذات كلا حلال (وَمَا عَلَّمْتُم) وصيد ما علمتم (مِسَ الْجَوَارِجِ) الكواسب من الكلاب والسباع والطير (مُكَّلِّيِنَ) أي مرسلين على الصيد (تَعَلِّمُونَهَّ) أي تؤدبونَهن (مِمَّا عَلَّمَكُمْ أَلَّةُ) من آداب الصيد (فَكُلُواْ مِمَّآ أَمْسَكْنَ عَلَيْكُمْ) وإن قتلنه، يحل أكل الصيد إذا

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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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