Q 12:21 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِے مِن أَنْ أَوْ وَكَذَٰلِكَ لِيُوسُفَ فِے مِن عَلَيٰٓ وَلَٰكِنَّ لَا

And he of Egypt who purchased him said unto his wife: Receive him honourably. Perchance he may prove useful to us or we may adopt him as a son. Thus we established Joseph in the land that We might teach him the interpretation of events. And Allah was predominant in His career, but most of mankind know not — 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 Yūsuf begins at vol. 5, p. 18 (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 26, ¶88 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ادخل البيت إذا وجدت فيه شيئا آتني به أفد نفسي من هؤلاء الصبيان، أتاه بثمان جوزات فدفعها للصبيان فرضوا، فقال: إن كان يوسف بيع بثمن بخس فهؤلاء كذلك باعوني بثمان جوزات 2 «وَكَانُواْ فِيهِ مِنَ الزِّٰهِدِينٌ» فجاءت به السيارة إلى مصر فباعه الذي اشتراء بعشرين دينارا أو زوجي نعل وثوبين، بيع أيضا بثمن بخس مرة ثانية، فلما رأوا حسنه وجمال نادوا لبيعه فتنافس فيه جميع الأغنياء، فكل أهل مصر حضروا لأن يشتروا يوسف حتى عجوز ما كان عندها إلا شيء من الخيوط أتت بخيوطها أنها تشتري يوسف، فتنافسوا فيه حتى اشتري بوزنه ذهبا ووزنه فضة ووزنه عودا ووزنه مسكا ووزنه حريرا وكان أربعمائة كيل، الآن غلا الثمن ما استطاع أن يشتريه إلا عزيز مصر فاشتراه 3 (وَقَالَ اَ۬لذِے اِ۪شْتَر۪يٰهُ مِن مِّصْرَ) وهو قطيفير العزيز (لامْرَأَتِهِ أَكْرِمِى مَثْوِيْهُ) مقامه عندك ( عَسِىّ أَنْ يَنَفعَنَا أَوْ نَتَّخِذَهُ وَلَداً) تفرس فيه، حقق اللّٰه فراسته. أصدق الناس فراسة عزيز مصر الذي قال في يوسف «أَكْرِمِى مَثْوِيٰه) مقامه عندك (عَسىّ …

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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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