O ye who believe! Retaliation is prescribed for you in the matter of the murdered; the freeman for the freeman, and the slave for the slave, and the female for the female. And for him who is forgiven somewhat by his (injured) brother, prosecution according to usage and payment unto him in kindness. This is an alleviation and a mercy from your Lord. He who transgresseth after this will have a painful doom — 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 Al-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54(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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Exegesis of the verse
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 5 — vol. 1, p. 120 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
In this session, not yet located. Lesson 5 runs from Q 2:106–Q 2:202. Of the 97 āyāt in that span, as many as 87 are quoted where the session reaches them; this one is not, so whether he takes it up here is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.
Most of Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s Qurʾānic commentary is oral. Sixty-two cassettes of Wolof exegesis covering the whole Qurʾān have never been transcribed, and this index reaches only what the written sessions quote. An absence here belongs to the index, not to the corpus.
Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.
Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-text
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 1, ¶72 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 29 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
فتح السورة بأربع آيات في المؤمنين، وآيتين في الكافرين وثلاث عشرة آية في المنافقين، ثم دعا عباده إلى وحدانيته والإيمان برسوله والجنة والنار، ثم خاطب بني إسرائيل في نصف السورة، ثم أتى بفقه الدين «كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الْقِصَاصُ فِي الْقَتْلَى أُلْحُرُّ بِالْحُرِّ» الأوصاف الأربعة في أول السورة للخلفاء الأربعة، أول ما ذكر «هُدىً لِلْمُتَّفِيرَ»، والتقوى صفة أبي بكر الصديق رضي اللّٰه عنه «وَسَيُّجَنَّبُهَا ألاَتْقَى الذِى يُؤْتِى مَالَهُ يَتَزَكّى» هذه نزلت في أبي بكر اتفاقا. والإيمان بالغيب صفة عمر بن الخطاب رضي اللّٰه تعالى عنه. يوم أسلم عمر نزل على الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وعمر يسلم «يَأَيَّهَا الّنبِيُّ حَسْبُكَ اللَّهُ وَمَنِ إتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ
Lesson 1 runs Q 1:1–Q 2:5. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.
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.