Q 21:70 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

بِهِۦ

And they wished to set a snare for him, but We made them the greater losers — 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-Anbiyāʾ begins at vol. 6, p. 107 (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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 34, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 6, p. 122 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

الناس إليه وأعزهم من يضرب رأسه بالمزيرة ليلا يحس بحركة البعوض في دماغدا مكث مكذا حتى مل من هذا، فقال: أنا رأسي هذا فسد، لابد أن تصنعوا لي رأسا من الذهب واقطعوا هذا الرأس وركبوا عليه ذلك الرأس الذي تصنعونه لي - ما أشد حماقته - فقطع رأسه فمات، ادعى الربوبية فأهلكه اللّٰه بأضعف خلقه، فلهذا قال (وَأَرَادُواْ بِهِ، كَيْداً)

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The verse used, not interpreted

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 42, ¶161 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 55 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللّٰه خلقكم وخلق آلهتكم (قَالُواْ اُ۪بْنُواْ لَهُۥ بُنْيَٰناࣰ) فاملأوه حطبا وأضرموه بالنار فإذا التهب (ألْفُوهُ مِ الْجَحِيمِ) النار الشديدة (وَأَرَادُوا بِهِ، كَيْدا) بالقائه في النار (بَجَعَلْتَهَمْ الأَسْجَلِينَ) المقهورين، فخرج من النار سالما (وَقَالَ إِنِّے ذَاهِبٌ اِلَيٰ رَبِّے) مهاجر (سَيَهْدِين) إلى حيث أمرني ربي فذهب إلى الشام فلما وصل إلى بيت المقدس قال (رَبِّ هَبْ لِ) ولدا (مِنَ اَ۬لصَّٰلِحِينَۖ فَبَشَّرْنَٰهُ بِغُلَٰمٍ حَلِيمࣲۖ) ذي حلم (فَلَمَّا بَلَغَ مَعَهُ اُ۬لسَّعْيَ)

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Lesson 42 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 35:15–Q 37:144) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. 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.

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