Sūrat Yūsuf · 12 : 78

Q 12:78 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّ لَهُۥٓ إِنَّا مِنَ

They said: O ruler of the land! Lo! he hath a very aged father, so take one of us instead of him. Lo! we behold thee of those who do kindness — 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 27, ¶41 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 39 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ساءه ولكن أخفى ذلك في نفسه ( وَلَمْ يُبْدِهَا) أي يظهرها ( لَهُمْ قَالَ )) في نفسه لم يقل لهم (مَّكَاناٗۖ ) من يوسف وأخيه لسرقتكم أخاكم من أبيكم وظلمكم له وَاللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا تَصِفُونَۖ قَالُواْ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا اَ۬لْعَزِيزُ إِنَّ لَهُۥٓ أَباٗ شَيْخاٗ كَبِيراٗ) يحبه أكثر منا ويتسلى به عن ولده الهالك ويحزنه فراقه (فَخُذَ اَحَدَنَا استعبده (مَكَانَهُۥٓ) بدلا منه ( إِنَّا نَر۪يٰكَ مِنَ اَ۬لْمُحْسِنِينَۖ )في أفعالك قَالَ مَعَاذَ اَ۬للَّهِ ) نعوذ بالله (أَن نَّاخُذَ إِلَّا مَنْ وَّجَدْنَا مَتَٰعَنَا عِندَهُۥٓ) نعوذ بالله من ذلك، لم يقل نعوذ بالله أن نأخذ إلا من سرق متاعنا لأنه يعلم براءة أخيه من السرقة، ولكن الذي وجدنا متاعنا عنده تحرزا من الكذب « إِنَّآ إِذاٗ ) به إن أخذنا غيره (لَّظَٰلِمُونَۖ فَلَمَّا اَ۪سْتَيْـَٔسُواْ )يئسوا (مِنْهُ خَلَصُواْ) اعتزلوا (نَجِيّاٗۖ) يناجي بعضه

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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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