Q 24:43 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

۞أَلَمْ أَنَّ ثُمَّ ثُمَّ مِنْ مِنَ مِن فِيهَا مِنۢ بِهِۦ مَنْ عَن مَّنْ

Hast thou not seen how Allah wafteth the clouds, then gathereth them, then maketh them layers, and thou seest the rain come forth from between them; He sendeth down from the heaven mountains wherein is hail, and smiteth therewith whom He will, and averteth it from whom He will. The flashing of His lightning all but snatcheth away the sight — 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-Nūr begins at vol. 6, p. 190 (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 36 — vol. 7, p. 3 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

In this session, not yet located. Lesson 36 is titled by sūra rather than by āya; its bounds (Q 24:10–Q 25:77) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. Of the 132 āyāt in that span, as many as 72 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.

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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-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 48, ¶1 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 108 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(قَالَ) إبراهيم (فَمَا خَطْبُكُمُوَ) شأنكم (أَيُّهَا الْمُرْسَلُونُ قَالَواْ إِنَّا أرْسِلْنَ إِلَى قَوْمِ مُجْرِمِينَ)، كافرين قوم لوط. سأل إبراهيم عن شأن المرسلين بعدما أخبروه خبرهم "لاَ تَخَفٌ وَبَشَرُوهْ بِغُلَمِ عَلِيمٌ" تقدم أنهم أخبروه أنهم رسل إلى قوم لوط، وهذا السؤال الثاني ما خطبكم؟ أي ما يحملكم على التعجل عادة الكرام إذا كان عندهم ضيف وأرادوا أن ينصرفوا سريعا يقولون لهم ما هذه العجلة ما خطبكم؟ لم تتعجلون؟ «قَالُوَاْ إِنَّا أُرْسِلْنَا إِلَىٰ قَوْمٍ مُجْرِمِس» (لِنَرْسِلَ عَلَيْهِمْ حِجَارَةَ مِ طِيرٍ) مطبوخ بالنار ( مُسَوَّمَةً) معلمة اسم من يرمى بها وعِندَ رَبِّكَ وهذا كله وقع عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى (لِلْمُسْرِحِينَ)) أخبر الملائكة أنهم سيرسلون مطرا من حجارة من طين ليس حجارة من برد كما يقع "مِن جِبَالٍ فِيهَا مِنْ بَرَدِ " تقدم

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Lesson 48 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 51:28–Q 54:55) 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.

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.

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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