Q 58:12 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ إِذَا ذَٰلِكَ لَّكُمْ فَإِن لَّمْ فَإِنَّ

O ye who believe! When ye hold conference with the messenger, offer an alms before your conference. That is better and purer for you. But if ye cannot find (the wherewithal) then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful — 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-Mujādala begins at vol. 9, p. 189 (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 50, ¶32 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الحياة (وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرࣱۖ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِذَا نَٰجَيْتُمُ اُ۬لرَّسُولَ) سبب نزولها أن جماعة أكثروا المناجاة مع الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم حتى أتعبوه وكان لا يدعوه أحد إلا وأجابه ولا تستوقفه أمَة إلا ووقف لها صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، وكل من أخذ أذنه للمناجاة أطاعه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم من كرم أخلاقه. والأغنياء يكثرون المناجاة معه حتى غلبوا على الفقراء في مجلس النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم، فأنزل اللّه هذه الآية فلما نزلت ضن الأغنياء عن هذه الصدقة والفقراء ما وجدوا شيئا قال علي هي آية ما عمل بها غيري ، نزلت وعندي دينار فبعته في عشرة دراهم فدخلت على الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أنفقت درهما ثم دخلت وأنفقت درهما حتى نفد الدينار فما عمل به أحد فنسخت. فقال علي إن الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم استشاره قال: ما تراني أجعل قدر هذه الصدقة، ترى أن أجعلها دينار!؟ قال علي: لا. قال: درهما؟ قال: لا، الناس لا يقدرون. قال: كم؟ قال: حبة من شعير.

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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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