They swear by Allah that they said nothing (wrong), yet they did say the word of disbelief, and did disbelieve after their Surrender (to Allah). And they purposed that which they could not attain, and they sought revenge only that Allah by His messenger should enrich them of His bounty. If they repent it will be better for them; and if they turn away, Allah will afflict them with a painful doom in the world and the Hereafter, and they have no protecting friend nor helper in the earth — 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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Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 22, ¶78 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 86 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(يَحْلِفُونَ) المنافقون (باللَهِ مَا قَالْوا) ما بلغك عنهم من السب، هم سبوا الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم عند عودته من تبوك، سافر رجال من المنافقين بضعة عشر رجلا فصاروا يتكلمون في النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، فضرب عمار بن ياسر وجوه رواحلهم، فلما حضروا إلى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أقسموا بالله ونفوا ذلك كله1 «يَحْلِفُونَ بِاللَّهِ مَا قَالوا» (وَلَقَدْ قَالُواْ كَلِمَةَ اَ۬لْكُفْرِ وَكَفَرُواْ بَعْدَ إِسْلَٰمِهِمْ) أظهروا الكفر بعد إظهار الإسلام (وَهَمُّواْ بِمَا لَمْ يَنَالُواْۖ) من الفتك بالنبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ليلة العقبة عند عوده من تبوك وهم بضعة عشر رجلا (وَمَا نَقَمُوٓاْ إِلَّآ أَنَ اَغْن۪يٰهُمُ اُ۬للَّهُ وَرَسُولُهُۥ مِن فَضْلِهِۦۖ) بالغنائم، هذه هي الردة، كما أن الردة في الشريعة توجد الردة في الطريقة، وردة الشريعة خير من ردة الطريقة لأن
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.