إِلَيْكَ لِّمَا مِنَ عَلَيْهِۖ بِمَآ وَلَا عَمَّا مِنَ مِنكُمْ وَلَوْ وَلَٰكِن فِے مَآ إِلَي بِمَا فِيهِ
And unto thee have We revealed the Scripture with the truth, confirming whatever Scripture was before it, and a watcher over it. So judge between them by that which Allah hath revealed, and follow not their desires away from the truth which hath come unto thee. For each We have appointed a divine law and a traced-out way. Had Allah willed He could have made you one community. But that He may try you by that which He hath given you (He hath made you as ye are). So vie one with another in good works. Unto Allah ye will all return, and He will then inform you of that wherein ye differ — 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.)
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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 14, ¶47 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
إِلَيْكَ يا محمد (الْكِتَبَ) القرآن (بِالْحَقِّ مُصَدِّقاً لِمَا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ) قبله مَ الْكِنْبِ
Read in context →Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
al-Fatāwā wa-l-ajwiba · undated · Arabic · §2, p. 244 · Mawsūʿat al-āthār al-nathriyya li-ṣāḥib al-fayḍa al-Tijāniyya, maḥwar 5 · compiled by Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · answered in writing
فأما عن التفرق الذي ذكره الله تعالى في آية ﴿أَنْ أَقِيمُواْ ٱلدِّينَ وَلَا تَتَفَرَّقُواْ فِيهِ﴾ (الشورى:13)، كأنه قيل: وما ذلك المشروع المشترك بين هؤلاء الرسل؟ فقيل: هو إقامة الدين، أي دين الإسلام… والمراد بإقامته تعديل أركانه، وحفظه من أن يقع فيه زيغ، والمواظبة عليه والتشمر له.
As for the division that Allah mentioned in the verse ﴿that you uphold the dīn and do not fall into division over it﴾ (al-Shūrā 13) — it is as though it were said: and what is that laid-down thing shared among these messengers? And the answer came: it is the upholding of the dīn, that is, the dīn of islām… What is meant by upholding it is setting its pillars straight, guarding it against any deviation falling into it, keeping steadily to it, and girding oneself for it.
Excerpt from the answer; the full text is not published here. Translation by Amadu Kunateh. The compiler's footnotes are not included.
§2. The edition prints this reference itself.
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.