Q 58:2 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِ۬لذِينَ مِنكُم مِّن مَّا هُنَّ إِنُ إِلَّا اَ۬ل۪ےْ وَإِنَّهُمْ مِّنَ وَإِنَّ

Such of you as put away your wives (by saying they are as their mothers) - They are not their mothers; none are their mothers except those who gave them birth - they indeed utter an ill word and a lie. And 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

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 50, ¶11 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بالحق تبارك وتعالى فرج اللّٰه عليه. إن خولة لما أجابها الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم بأنها حرمت على زوجها توجهت إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى واشتكت فسمع الحق تبارك وتعالى شكواها ففرج عنها. كان عز الدين بن عبد السلام يدرس في مجلسه فقال إن رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّه عليه وسلم طلق وآلى وظاهر وراجع كل هذا فعله الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وكان هناك تلميذ حاذق رجع إليه في الليل وخلا به وقال له يا أيها الشيخ أنا سمعتك تقول إن الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم تزوج وطلق وآلى وظاهر فأنا أظن أن النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ما ظاهر. قال له: ما الدليل على ذلك؟ قال قوله تعالى: «وَإِنَّهُمْ لَيَقُولُونَ مُنكَراً مِنَ الْقَوْلِ وَزُوراً» أظن أن هذا لا يمكن أن يصدر من الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم.

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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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