Q 2:72 across the corpus — Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

Q 2:72 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذْ فِيهَاۖ مَّا

And (remember) when ye slew a man and disagreed concerning it and Allah brought forth that which ye were hiding — 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.

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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 4, ¶19 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ما أمر الله به أوجبه، فهو واجب ومنذوب وإرشاد وتهديد وإباحة[20] (وَإذْ قَتَلْتُمْ تَنْسةٌ فَادَّرَأتُمْ بِيهَا وَاللَّهُ مُخْرِجْ مَا كُنتُمْ تَكْتَمُونَ) المفسرون يقدمون هذه الآية لموالاة خبات بني إسرائيل، قتلوا وأحدا منهم أسمه عاميل[21] كان رجلا غنيا عمر طويلا فأستعجل أبناء عمه أن يموت فيرثوه وتأخر موته فاستعجلوا وقتلوه، أخذوه ليلا وذهبوا به وذبحوه وألقوه بجانب حي وأصبحوا يطلبون أثره حتى أتوا للحي واتهموهم أنهم هم الذين قتلوه فأنكروا، فأتوا لموسى عليه الصلاة والسلام وطلبوا منه أن يظهر لهم من قتل قتيلهم، قالوا: نطلب منك أن تدعو اللّٰه أن يظهر لنا قاتله قال لهم موسى (إِلَّ أللَّهَ يَامَرُكُمُ وَ أَن تَذْبَحُواْ بَفَرَةَ م اقتلوا بقرة، قال اللّه (وَإِذْ قَالَ مُوسِىٰ لِفَوْمِهِة إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَامُرُكُمْوَ أَن تَذْبَحُواْ بَقَرَةٌ قَالُوْا أَتَتَّخِذْنَا هُزُوا نطلب منك أن تظهر لنا قاتل قتيلنا وأنت تأمرنا بذبح البقر قَالَ أَعْوذَ)

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The printing brackets no quotation here. A run of consecutive words in this paragraph — three at the shortest — occurs in one place in the muṣḥaf and nowhere else, and every āya lying inside that run is credited, so a run crossing a boundary attests both. Matching folds together the letter shapes the scan confuses, so the words need not stand in the āya exactly as printed.