Q 6:152 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَا إِلَّا بِالتِے هِيَ حَتَّيٰ لَا اِلَّا وَإِذَا وَلَوْ ذَا ذَٰلِكُمْ بِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ

And approach not the wealth of the orphan save with that which is better, till he reach maturity. Give full measure and full weight, in justice. We task not any soul beyond its scope. And if ye give your word, do justice thereunto, even though it be (against) a kinsman; and fulfil the covenant of Allah. This He commandeth you that haply ye may remember — 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, ¶67 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

القتل لأنه يحب بقاء العالم إلا ما شاء ((وَلا تَقْرَبُواْ مَالَ الْيَتِيمِ إِلَّ بِالتِى هِيَ أَحْسَرُ) هو ما فيه صلاحه (حَتَّىٰ يَبْلُغَ أَشُدَّهُ ) بأن يحتلم. حرم اللّٰه على الأولياء أن يأكلوا أموال يتاماهم، فليحفظوها لهم إذا بلغوا الحلم وبلغوا الرشد سلموا إليهم مالهم. كان واحد من الصالحين يحفظ كتاب اللّٰه ويكتب المصاحف دائما، قال إنه كتب أربعين مصحفا يرى الذباب ربما يشرب من المداد على الخط إلا من هذه الكلمة، ما رأى الذباب يشرب منها خوفا من مال اليتيم. والتعلم من كتب اليتيم جائز عند أكثر العلماء ومنهم من منع (وَأَوْفُواْ اُ۬لْكَيْلَ وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِۖ) إذا كلتم للناس أو وزنتم لهم فلتعدلوا ولا تبخسوا الناس أشياءهم ولا نُكَلِّفُ نَمْساً إِلَّ وُسْعَهَا) طاقتها فإن أخطأ في الكيل والوزن والله يعلم صحة نيته فلا

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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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