Sūrat Al-Qadr · 97 : 4

Q 97:4 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فِيهَا مِّن

The angels and the Spirit descend therein, by the permission of their Lord, with all decrees — 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-Qadr begins at vol. 10, p. 204 (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 55, ¶126 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

( بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ لِنَّا أَنزَلْنَهْ مِي لَيْلَةِ الْفَدْرِ) إنا أنزلناه القرآن أي جملة واحدة من اللوح المحفوظ إلى السماء الدنيا من العرش إلى السماء الدنيا «في لَيْلَةِ الْفَدْرِ» (وَمَا أَدْرِيْكَ) أعلمك ( مَا لَيْلَةُ الْفَدْرِ) تعظيم لشأنها وتعجيب منه (لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِرَ ألْفِ شَهْرِ) ألف شهر ليس فيها ليلة القدر خير منها ليلة القدر، ثلاث وثمانون سنة وثلث سنة. أعطى اللّٰه أمة محمد هذه الليلة تداركا لقصر أعمارهم لأن الأمم قبلنا يعيش شخص تسعمائة سنة، ثمانمائة سنة، وهؤلاء أعمارهم ما بين الستين إلى السبعين غالبا فأعطاهم اللّٰه ليلة القدر ثلاث وثمانون سنة (تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلِّءِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ) جبريل (فِيهَا) في تلك الليلة (بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِم) بأمره (صِ كُلِّ أَمْرِ) قضاه اللّٰه (سَلَمّ هِى) ليلة القدر ليلة سلام ( حَتَّى مَطْلَعِ الْعَجْرِ هي في كل رمضان وقال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: (التمسوها في العشر الأواخر في تاسعة تبقى يعني ليلة إحدى وعشرين، في سابعة …

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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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