Q 6:121 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَا مِمَّا لَمْ عَلَيْهِ وَإِنَّهُۥ وَإِنَّ إِلَيٰٓ وَإِنَ إِنَّكُمْ

And eat not of that whereon Allah's name hath not been mentioned, for lo! it is abomination. Lo! the devils do inspire their minions to dispute with you. But if ye obey them, ye will be in truth idolaters — 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-Anʿām begins at vol. 3, p. 112 (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 17, ¶16 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(إِنَّ ألذِينَ يَكْسِبُونَ ألإثْمَ سَيُجْزَوْنَ) في الآخرة (بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرِجُونَ) يكتسبون (وَلا تَاكُلُواْ مِمَّا لَمْ يُذْكَرِ إسْمُ اللَّهِ عَلَيْهِ)، بأن مات أو ذبح على اسم غيره وإلا فما ذبحه المسلم ولم يسم فيه عمدا أو نسيانا فهو حلال، قاله ابن عباس وعليه الشافعي [1] (وَإِنَّهُ ) أي الأكل منه (لَمِسْقٌ خروج عما يحل (وَإِنَّ الشَّيَطِينَ لَيْوحُونَ) يوسوسون (إِلَىّ أَوْلِيَآئهِمْ الكفار (لِيْجَدِلُوكُمْ) في تحليل الميتة وَإِنَ اطَعْتُمُوهُمَ فيه (إِنَّكُمْ لَمُشْرِكُونَ) مثلهم. ونزل في أبي جهل وحمزة، كان النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم يصلي في لمسجد الحرام حول البيت، وملأ من قريش ينظرون إليه فتكلموا وهنالك فرث ورائحة خبيثة يستقبحونها. قال واحد منهم: هل يقدر أحدكم أن يأخذ من تلك الروائح ويجعله على محمد وهو ساجد؟ قال عقبة بن أبي معيط: أنا، فأخذ تلك الرائحة القبيحة سلى جزور وفرث فوضعه على رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وهو ساجد، فصار كفار قريش يضحكون، يضحكون يستهزئون بالنبي صلى اللّٰه …

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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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