وَمَا تِلۡكَ بِيَمِينِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ
And what is that in thy right hand, O Moses
In the printed edition: Sūrat Ṭāhā begins at vol. 6, p. 69 (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, ¶113 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 40 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
وما تلك؟ تفهم من السؤال أنه سؤال رجل مغمي عليه أو غائب عن حسه «وَمَا تِلْكَ بِيَمِينِكَ» موسى نسي العصا ونسي أن العصا في يده اليمنى حتى قيل له بيمينك - نسي موسى - يا موسى «وَمَا تِلْكَ بِيَمِينِكَ يَمُوسِى» فانتبه تذكر موسى، وتذكر يده اليمنى، ورأى عصا في يده ( …
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. 4 · held at students’ request
Recorded, not yet transcribed. hiya ʿaṣāya — al-ʿaṣā and al-maʿṣiya are cognate in the lafẓ: what the servant ascribes to himself becomes a living thing against him. Then Moses' tongue, the coal, and why the miracle required the earlier defect.
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.