Q 58:8 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞اَلَمْ إِلَي اَ۬لذِينَ عَنِ ثُمَّ لِمَا عَنْهُ وَإِذَا بِمَا لَمْ بِهِ فِےٓ لَوْلَا بِمَا جَهَنَّمُۖ

Hast thou not observed those who were forbidden conspiracy and afterward returned to that which they had been forbidden, and (now) conspire together for crime and wrongdoing and disobedience toward the messenger? And when they come unto thee they greet thee with a greeting wherewith Allah greeteth thee not, and say within themselves: Why should Allah punish us for what we say? Hell will suffice them; they will feel the heat thereof - a hapless journey's end — 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, ¶19 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

قال إن اللّٰه ثالث ثلاثة، وإذا كان ثلاثة فهو رابعهم، خمسة هو سادسهم، أقل من ذلك وأكثر أيضا هو معهم. هذه المعية بالذات عند المحققين، وبالعلم عند العلماء وليس بمفهوم، (أَيْنَ مَا كَانُواْۖ ثُمَّ يُنَبِّئُهُم بِمَا عَمِلُواْ يَوْمَ اَ۬لْقِيَٰمَةِۖ إِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ بِكُلِّ شَےْءٍ عَلِيمٌۖ) (الَمْ تَرَ) تنظر إلَى ألذِينَ نُهُواْ عَيِ النَّجْوِىٰ تَمَّ يَعُودُولَ لِمَا نَهُواْ عَنْهُ ) نهاهم اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى عن النجوى وهم دائما يفعلون ما نهوا عنه (وَيَتَنَٰجَوْنَ بِالِاثْمِ وَالْعُدْوَٰنِ وَمَعْصِيَتِ اِ۬لرَّسُولِۖ)) هم اليهود خاهم النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم عما كانوا يفعلون من تناجيهم أي تحدثهم سرا ناظرين إلى المؤمنين ليوقعوا في قلوبهم الريبة، نهاهم اللّٰه عن ذلك (وَإِذَا جَآءُوكَ حَيَّوْكَ بِمَا لَمْ يُحَيِّكَ بِهِ اِ۬للَّهُ) نزلت في المنافقين اليهود، كانوا إذا أتوا النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يقولون السام عليك، السام معناه الموت. جلس النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ومعه عائشة فجاء يهودي …

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 50, ¶20 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وعليك، فقالت عائشة: وعليك الموت ولعنة اللّٰه وغضبه، تغيظت عليه فسألها الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ما حملها على هذا الغضب؟ قالت: أما سمعت ما قال لك؟ قال لك السام عليك، السام الموت، قال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وأنا رددت عليه قلت له وعليك ويستجيب اللّٰه دعائي ولا يستجيب دعاءه هو [1] فنزل ( وَإِذَا جَاءُوكَ حَيَّوْكَ) أيها النبي بِمَا لَمْ يُحَيِّكَ بِهِ اللَّه) وهو قولهم السام عليك (وَيَقُولُونَ فِجِ أَنْبُسِهِمْ لَوْلا يُعَذِّبْنَا[1]

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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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