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-Aʿlā begins at vol. 10, p. 167(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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Exegesis of the verse
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 14, ¶57 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
"صَحْفٍ إِبْرَهِيمَ وَمُوسِىُ" هذا كتاب مهيمن على جميع الكتب، فكما أن كتابه أفضل الكتب السماوية ودينه أفضل الأديان وأمته خير أمة فهو أفضل جميع الأنبياء باتفاق.
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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 55, ¶205 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
كتب موسى ما هي؟ صحف فقط صحف كهذه الجرائد " صُحْف إِبْرَهِيمَ وَمُوسى" وكتاب محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كتاب مهيمن على جميع الكتب، استغرق جميع ما أنزل اللّٰه من كتب، وكل ما عند الأنبياء من المعجزات فعند محمد صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أعظم وأكثر منه. كان لنوح سفينته نجته من الغرق هو وأتباعه. كان محمد يوما حول نهر في جانبه عكرمة بن أبي جهل قبل إسلامه فقال له: أسلم. قال: حتى يأتيك ذلك الحجر الذي وراء النهر. فقال الرسول: يا حجر فلبى قال: آتني، فغاص في الماء ولم يغرق حتى وصل إلى المصطفى صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فقال: ما تشهد لي؟ قال: أشهد أنك رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وخاتم النبيئين. فقال لعكرمة: ما يكفيك هذا؟ قال: حتى يرجع لمحله فرجع إلى محله واستقر فيه. هذا أغرب من سفينة نوح. ونار إبراهيم، احترق صبي حتى عم الحرق جميع جسده فتفل عليه المصطفى صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فصار كأن لم يحرق. نار إبرهيم "بَرْداً وَسَلَماً" قبل أن تمسه ولكن هذا احترق بالماضي ورجع كأنه لم يحرق. هذا أغرب من نار إبراهيم، وفلق …
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.
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.