Sūrat Al-Tawba · 9 : 99

Q 9:99 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمِنَ مَنْ مَا أَلَآ إِنَّهَا لَّهُمْۖ فِے إِنَّ

And of the wandering Arabs there is he who believeth in Allah and the Last Day, and taketh that which he expendeth and also the prayers of the messenger as acceptable offerings in the sight of Allah. Lo! verily it is an acceptable offering for them. Allah will bring them into His mercy. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful 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 23, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

خوفا، وهم بنو أسد وغطفان (وَيَتَرَبَّصٌ) ينتظر (بِكُمُ الدَّوَآيِرَ) دوائر الزمان أن تنقلب عليكم فيتخلصوا منكم (عَلَيْهِمْ دَآئِرَةُ السَّوْءِ) عليهم الهلاك لا عليكم أنتم المسلمين وَاللَّهُ سَبِيعٌ) لأقوال عباده (عَلِيم) بأفعالهم. (وَمِنَ اُ۬لَاعْرَابِ مَنْ يُّومِنُ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ اِ۬لَاخِرِ) فِيهم جنس آمنوا بالله حقا وآمنوا بيوم القيامة وصفهم اللّٰه بأوصاف: يؤمن بالله واليوم الآخر (وَيَتَّخِذُ مَا يُنفِقُ قُرُبَٰتٍ عِندَ اَ۬للَّهِ وَصَلَوَٰتِ اِ۬لرَّسُولِۖ) وصفهم بأربعة أوصاف: الإيمان بالله وباليوم الآخر والإنفاق في سبيل اللّٰه تقربا إلى اللّه تبارك وتعالى وطلبا لدعوات الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وهؤلاء جهينة ومزينة (أَلا إِنَّهَا نفقتهم (قَرْبَةٌ لَهُمْ) عنده (سَيُدْخِلْهُمْ اللَّهُ فِي رَحْمَتِه جنته (إِنَّ اللَّهَ غَفُور) لأهل طاعته رَحِيم م(وَالسَّٰبِقُونَ اَ۬لَاوَّلُونَ مِنَ اَ۬لْمُهَٰجِرِينَ وَالَانص۪ارِ وَالذِينَ اَ۪تَّبَعُوهُم) إلى يوم القيامة (بإحْسَسِ رَضِىَ اللَّهُ

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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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