By the heaven, holding mansions of the stars — 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-Burūj begins at vol. 10, p. 161(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 45, ¶7 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
كالجنان، والقوى الروحانية كالملائكة، وكما أن العالم الأكبر السنة ثلاثمائة وستون يوما فعدد مفاصل الإنسان ثلاثمائة وستون مفصلاا، وكما أن في العالم الأكبر سبع سماوات وسبع أرضين، الإنسان فيه جلد ولحم وشحم وعظم وعرق ومخ ودم، كل شكل لا يشاكل الآخر. كما أن السماوات متباينة كذلك هذه الأجزاء في ابن آدم. والعالم الأكبر يجري بمكينة البروج الإثني عشر التي أقسم اللّٰه بها "وَالسَّمَاءِ ذَاتِ ٱلْبَرُوجِ" البروج اثنا عشر برجا، الإنسان فيه العينان والأذنان والمنخران والمخرجان والفم والسرة وكما أن العالم الأكبر يجري بمحركات سبعة وهي الكواكب السيارة الخمسة والقمر والشمس، هذه السبعة هي التي تحرك العالم، الإنسان فيه قوة باصرة وقوة ذائقة وقوة سامعة وقوة شامة وقوة لامسة، الحواس الخمس، والنطق قوة ناطقة والعقل قوة عاقلة، فالحواس الخمس تستمد من النطق، والنطق بستمد من العقل. كما أن في العالم الأكبر الكواكب السيارة الخمسة تستمد من القمر والقمر يستمد من الشمس. وكما أن العالم الأكبر فيه جبال وسهول وبحار وأنهار …
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 54 — vol. 10, p. 129 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
In this session, not yet located. Lesson 54 is titled by sūra rather than by āya; its bounds (Q 78:1–Q 86:17) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. Of the 276 āyāt in that span, as many as 58 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.