وَالذِينَ يُتَوَفَّوْنَ مِنكُمْ وَيَذَرُونَ أَزْوَٰجاࣰ يَتَرَبَّصْنَ بِأَنفُسِهِنَّ أَرْبَعَةَ أَشْهُرࣲ وَعَشْراࣰۖ فَإِذَا بَلَغْنَ أَجَلَهُنَّ فَلَا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا فَعَلْنَ فِےٓ أَنفُسِهِنَّ بِالْمَعْرُوفِۖ وَاللَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرࣱۖ
Such of you as die and leave behind them wives, they (the wives) shall wait, keeping themselves apart, four months and ten days. And when they reach the term (prescribed for them) then there is no sin for you in aught that they may do with themselves in decency. Allah is informed of what ye do — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Baqara begins at vol. 1, p. 54 (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 6, ¶85 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
(أرْبَعَةَ أَشْهَرٍ وَعَشْرا) من الليالي وهذا في غير الحوامل فعدتُن أن يضعن حملهن بآية الطلاق والأمّة على النصف من ذلك بالسنة (وَإِذَا بَلَغْرَ أَجَلَهُنَّ) انقضت عدة تربصهن أَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ جِيمَا بَعَلْتَ بِّ أَنْجُيهِنَ) من التزين والتعرض للحطّاب (ب …
Read in context →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.