Q 9:28 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ إِنَّمَا فَلَا هَٰذَاۖ وَإِنْ فَسَوْفَ مِن إِن ا۪نَّ

O ye who believe! The idolaters only are unclean. So let them not come near the Inviolable Place of Worship after this their year. If ye fear poverty (from the loss of their merchandise) Allah shall preserve you of His bounty if He will. Lo! Allah is Knower, Wise — 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-Tawba begins at vol. 4, p. 74 (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 21, ¶119 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 44 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

عرمرم اثنا عشر ألفا، فالتفت يمينا وشمالا وقال: لن نغلب اليوم من قلة، والله تبارك وتعالى غيور جَلَمْ تُعْرِ عَنكُمْ شَيْئَا) فلما تصافوا مع العدو فروا كلا إلا اثني عشر رجلا وَصَافَتْ عَلَيْكُمُ الأَرْض بِمَا رَحْبَتْ) بقي رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وبقي معه أبو بكر وعمر وعثمان وعلي، الخلفاء الأربعة وطلحة وسعد والزبير وسعد وسعيد وأبو عبيدة بن الجراح وعبد اللّٰه بن مسعود وأبو عبيدة بن الحارث (ثُمَّ وَلَّيْتُمْ مُدْبِرِينٌ) فروا كلا إلا هؤلاء الإئني عشر وثبت النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم على بغلته البيضاء ليس معه غير العباس وأبو سفيان بن الحارث آخذا بركابه، وهو يقول: أنا النبي لاكذب أنا ابن عبد المطلب (ثُمَّ أَنزَلَ اللَّهُ سَكِينَتَهُو طمأنينته (عَلَىٰ رَسُولِهِ، وَعَلَى الْمُومِنِينَ) فردوا إلى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم لما ناداهم العباس بإذنه وكان صوت العباس يبلغ ثمانية أميال فدعاهم يا أهل القرآن، يا أهل بيعة الرضوان، يا أهل الجنان، هلموا إلى رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، فهرولوا …

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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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