Q 6:38 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمَا مِن فِے وَلَا إِلَّآ مَّا فِے مِن ثُمَّ إِلَيٰ

There is not an animal in the earth, nor a flying creature flying on two wings, but they are peoples like unto you. We have neglected nothing in the Book (of Our decrees). Then unto their Lord they will be gathered — 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 16, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الهواء (بِجَنَاحَيْهِ إِلَّآ أُمَمٌ اَمْثَالُكُمۖ) في تدبير خلقها ورزقها وأحوالها، الحيوانات في الدنيا إما شيء يدب على الأرض وكل ما يدب على الأرض فهو من جنس الدواب، أو طائر يطير في الهواء فهو من جنس الطيور. ذكر الأرض لأن الخلق في السماء غير داخل في هذا، فهم كلهم مؤمنون طائعون "لاَ يَعْصُورَ اللَّهَ مَا أَمَرَهُمْ وَيَمْعَلُونَ مَا يُومَرُونَ" أما دواب الأرض وكل ما يطير في الهواء فكلهم أمم أمثالكم. وما ذكر حيوانات البحر لأنها تدخل في الدواب، لأنها إن كان مشيها في البحر دبيبا فهي من جملة الدواب، وإن كان السبح في البحر طيرانا فهي من جملة الطيور، إذًا لما ذكر الدواب والطيور ذكر كل ما خلق اللّٰه على وجه الأرض في البر والبحر كلهم أمم أمثالكم، إن اللّٰه دبر خلقها ورزقها وجميع أحوالها.

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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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