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-Aʿrāf begins at vol. 3, p. 191(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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 37, ¶18 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
السحرة آمنوا بالله وسجدوا لله (قَالُوَاْ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ الْعَلَمِينَ) قال فرعون: هذا أنا، قالوا ( رَبِّ مُوسى وَهَرُوتَ) قدموا موسى مع أن هارون أسن من موسى لأن موسى لم يدخل في عبودية فرعون قط، أما هارون فقد كان استرقّه فرعون فيما مضى، لما قالوا «رَبِّ مُوسىٰ» علم أنه ليس فرعون. السحرة بلغوا من علم السحر مبلغ الكمال، فعلى هذا ينبغي لكل إنسان إذا تعلم علما أن يتعلمه حتى يبلغ الكمال فيه، حتى السحرة لما بلغوا الكمال في السحر، ورأوا شيئا فوق ما عندهم علموا أن هذا ليس من جنس السحر لأنّهم بلغوا الكمال في السحر، لو كان هذا سحرا ما غلبهم موسى أبدا ولكن لما غلبهم موسى علموا أن تلك معجزة إلهية ليست من قبيل السحر فآمنوا في الحين «ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِيَ رَبِّ مُوسِىٰ وَهَرُونَ» (قَالَ) فرعون ءَامَنتُمْ لَهُ لموسى (قَبْلَ أَنَ اذَرَ لَكُمُ و) ما طلبتم مني الإذن في الإيمان بموسى بل تقدمتم فقط للإيمان بموسى بدون إذني ( إِنَّهُو لَكَبِيرُكُمُ الذِى عَلَّمَكُمُ السِّحْرَ) أنا فهمت أمركم موسى …
The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 19 — vol. 3, p. 216 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
In this session, not yet located. Lesson 19 runs from Q 7:88–Q 7:170. Of the 83 āyāt in that span, as many as 52 are quoted where the session reaches them; this one is not, so whether he takes it up here is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.
Most of Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s Qurʾānic commentary is oral. Sixty-two cassettes of Wolof exegesis covering the whole Qurʾān have never been transcribed, and this index reaches only what the written sessions quote. An absence here belongs to the index, not to the corpus.
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. Passages 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.