وَٱلۡخَيۡلَ وَٱلۡبِغَالَ وَٱلۡحَمِيرَ لِتَرۡكَبُوهَا وَزِينَةࣰۚ وَيَخۡلُقُ مَا لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ
And horses and mules and asses (hath He created) that ye may ride them, and for ornament. And He createth that which ye know not
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Naḥl begins at vol. 5, p. 124 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)
The site’s Arabic edition follows Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ; the reference text quoted here and the matcher behind the Fī Riyāḍ loci are Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim. Content is nearly identical, but verse-boundary numbering diverges in a handful of places. Each locus carries its own witness’s numbering. Page references 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 29, ¶95 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 100 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
من مكة إلى المدينة وناقته العضباء، والجدعاء وهذه أسماء، ليست صفات، إنما سميت بذلك فقط 1. والرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كان يملك من الغنم مائة شاة2 ولم يملك البقر (وَالْخَيْلَ وَالْبِغَالَ وَالْحَمِيرَ لِتَرْكَبُوهَا وَزِينَةً ) خلق لكم الخيل وخلق لكم البغال وال …
Read in context →Not Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s words. Students and successors reading the same verse — kept below and apart, because a school’s reading is evidence of transmission, not of what the master said.
rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 16 · answered in writing
one being asked about it has no more knowledge than the o ne asking,7 nor is he like him, nor close to him, no r with him in a ny da’irah . “He creates what you know not” (Qur’an 16:8), “ It rests on Allah to show the right way ” (Qur’an 16:9)…O Allah, “Guide
Working transcription — not yet proofread against the printing.
Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 16.
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.