Sūrat Al-Tawba · 9 : 40

Q 9:40 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞اِلَّا فَقَدْ إِذَ اُ۬لذِينَ إِذْ هُمَا فِے إِذْ لَا اِنَّ مَعَنَاۖ عَلَيْهِۖ لَّمْ اَ۬لذِينَ هِيَ

If ye help him not, still Allah helped him when those who disbelieve drove him forth, the second of two; when they two were in the cave, when he said unto his comrade: Grieve not. Lo! Allah is with us. Then Allah caused His peace of reassurance to descend upon him and supported him with hosts ye cannot see, and made the word of those who disbelieved the nethermost, while Allah's Word it was that became the uppermost. Allah is Mighty, 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 22, ¶24 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 86 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

دين اللّه تبارك وتعالى، وأنا إذا قُتلت فلا شيء، واحد من الناس فقط، فلما رأى أن رسول اللّه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم تعب حمله على ظهره وصار يعدو حتى وضعه عند الغار، والمسافة قريبة لا تقتضي هذه الرواية أن يكون الرسول صلى اللّٰه وسلم يتعب في تلك المسافة، اللهم إلا إذا كانا ضلا الطريق، أو الرواية التي ذكرت أنهم سبقوا إلى حُنين فامتنع حنين قال يا رسول الله اذهب عني لا يقتلوك فوقي فأشقى بذلك فقال له جبل الثور إلي، إلي يا رسول الله، فرجع إلى الثور فلهذا طالت المسافة حتى تعب الرسول وحمله أبو بكر حتى وضعه في الغار ودخل في الغار وأخرج منه كل ما يؤذي فنام الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم على فخذي أبي بكر. «إِذْ يَقُولُ لِصَحِبِهِ» أجمعت الأمة على أن هذا يعني أبا بكر، وهذا نص على أفضليته، القرآن نص على أنه صاحب رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. من أنكر أن أبا بكر صاحب لرسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فقد كفر لأنه أنكر القرآن «لا تَحْزَنِ إنَّ اللَّه مَعَنَا» لما خاف أبو بكر بكى وقال يا رسول اللّٰه إن أصبت …

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 22, ¶30 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 86 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

في الدين (بَهُمْ مِي رَيْبِهِمْ يَتَرَدَّدُون يتحيرون (وَلَوَ آرَادُواْ الْخُرُوجَ) معك (لَاعَدُّوا لَهْرِ عُدَّةَ أهبة من الآلة والزاد (وَلَكِر كَرِهَ اللَّهُ إنْبِعَاتَهُمْ) لم يرد خروجهم بَتَبَطَهُمْ )

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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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