إِذْ يُوسُفُ إِنِّے لِے
When Joseph said unto his father: O my father! Lo! I saw in a dream eleven planets and the sun and the moon, I saw them prostrating themselves unto me — 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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 26, ¶63 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
الجاهلين بخبر يوسف. اذكر (إِذْ قَالَ يُوسُفُ لَابِيهِ) يعقوب (يَٰٓأَبَتِ )يا أبي إِّ نَه
Read in context →1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 26, ¶65 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
في المنام (أَحَدَ عَشَرَ كَوْكَباً وَالشَّمْسَ وَالْقَمَرَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ) تأكيد( لِي سَجِدِينٌ)) أي له، رأى في المنام أولا اثنتي عشرة خشبة طوالا ركزت على الأرض فخرجت خشبة صغيرة منها وتغلبت على الإحدى عشرة حتى قلعتها. قصها على أبيه فقال له: لا تقص هذه الرؤيا 1، فرأى بعد ذلك هذه الرؤيا التي ذكرها القرآن، قال إنه رأى في المنام أحد عشر كوكبا والشمس والقمر يسجدون له فسمعته ضرة أمه وقصت القصة على إخوته فقالوا ما رضي أن يسجد له إخوته حتى يسجد له أبوه وأمه، سيرى وهموا بقتله. سمي يعقوب يعقوب لأنه ولدته أمه توأما، كان يعقوب وعيص توأمين فلما حضرت ولادتهما أراد يعقوب أن يسبق فعرض له عيص وقال له: إذا أردت أن تسبقني فسأعترض في بطن أمي فتموت أمنا ونموت جميعا، فتأخر يعقوب وخرج عيص فتبعه يعقوب، فلهذا سمي يعقوب، فصار يعقوب أحب إلى أمه، وعيص أحب إلى أبيه إسحاق، فلما قربت وفاة إسحاق، لكل نبي دعوة مستجابة، دعا عيصا وكان عيص حرفته الصيد، ويعقوب يربي الحيوانات، قال إسحاق لعيص: صد لي وحشا واشو لي لحمه وآتني به …
Read in context →The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.
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. Passages 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.