Q 5:42 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَإِن أَوَ عَنْهُمْۖ وَإِن عَنْهُمْ فَلَنْ وَإِنْ إِنَّ

Listeners for the sake of falsehood! Greedy for illicit gain! If then they have recourse unto thee (Muhammad) judge between them or disclaim jurisdiction. If thou disclaimest jurisdiction, then they cannot harm thee at all. But if thou judgest, judge between them with equity. Lo! Allah loveth the equitable — 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 14, ¶32 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

إذا تواقعوا إلينا وهو أصح قولي الشافعي [1]، فلو ترافعوا إلينا مع مسلم وجب إجماعا (وَإِن تُعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ فَلَنْ يَّضُرُّوكَ شَئْاࣰۖ وَإِنْ حَكَمْتَ) بينهم (فَاحْكُم بَيْنَهُم بِالْقِسْطِۖ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ يُحِبُّ اُ۬لْمُقْسِطِينَۖ) العادلين في الحكم أي يشيبهم (وَكَيْفَ يُحَكِّمُونَكَ وَعِندَهُمْ التَّوْرِيَةُ فِيهَا حُكُمُ اللَّهِ) بالرجم، لم يقصدوا بذلك معرفة الحق بل ما هو أهون عليهم (ثُمَّ يَتَوَلَّوْتَ) يعرضون عن حكمك بالرجم الموافق لكتابهم (مِنْ بَعْدِ ذَلِكٌّ وَمَا أوْلَءِكَ بِالْمُومِنِينَ) كان يهود خيبر إذا زنى فيهم شريف خففوا عليه حكم الله وجلدوه وأخذوا منه المال، وإذا زنى غير شريف رجموه، فزنى فيهم شريفان من أجلائهم فأرسلوا إلى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم لعلهم يجدون رخصة عنده فقال لهم: حكم اللّٰه الرجم، قالوا: جرت علينا يا أبا القاسم، ليس هذا هو حكم الله، فقال لهم: هذا هو حكم اللّٰه وهو في التوراة، فقالوا له: من أين لك أنه في التوراة؟ قال آتوا بالتوراة، فذهبوا وأتوا …

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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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