وَإِنِّي خِفۡتُ ٱلۡمَوَٰلِيَ مِن وَرَآءِي وَكَانَتِ ٱمۡرَأَتِي عَاقِرࣰ ا فَهَبۡ لِي مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيࣰّ ا
Lo! I fear my kinsfolk after me, since my wife is barren. Oh, give me from Thy presence a successor
In the printed edition: Sūrat Maryam begins at vol. 6, p. 40 (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.
Each mark is one work in which Shaykh Ibrāhīm engages this verse, placed by date of composition. Hollow marks are loci we know of but cannot yet show.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 32, ¶7 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 40 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
طول حياته ما طلب من اللّٰه شيئا إلا وأعطاه ما طلب، فلا يستحسن أن يخيبه وهو في الحالة التي صار أحوج إلى استجابته من كل زمن مضى حاشاه تبارك وتعالى أن يعود عبده من صغره ووقت قوته على أنه لا يطلب منه شيئا إلا وأعطاه حتى إذا وهن وشاب وعجز وانقطع رجاؤه وصار أحوج إلى …
Read in context →A single interpretive equivalence, often a received one, rather than commentary proper.
Shaʿbān 1375 / March–April 1956 · Arabic · al-Ḥikam al-quṭbiyya (ed. AK), p. 5 · held at students’ request
Recorded, not yet transcribed. Taṣrīḥ against taʿrīḍ in supplication: Zachariah asks explicitly (rabbi hab lī min ladunka waliyyan) because he seeks a good; Job alludes (annī massaniya l-ḍurr) because he seeks the lifting of an affliction, and allusion is nearer to adab.
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.