Sūrat Al-Naml · 27 : 49

Q 27:49 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

ثُمَّ مَا وَإِنَّا

They said: Swear one to another by Allah that we verily will attack him and his household by night, and afterward we will surely say unto his friend: We witnessed not the destruction of his household. And lo! we are truthtellers — 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-Naml begins at vol. 7, p. 85 (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 37, ¶117 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بالخير والشر (وَكَانَ فِي الْمَدِينَةِ ) مدينة ثمود (تِسْعَةُ رَهْطࣲ يُفْسِدُونَ فِے اِ۬لَارْضِ) بالمعاصي (وَلا يُصْلِحُونَ) بالطاعة (قَالَواْ تَقَاسَمُوا ) أحلفوا (بِاللَّهِ لَتْبَيَّنَّهُ ) لنهلكنه (وَأَهْلَهُۥ ثُمَّ لَنَقُولَنَّ لِوَلِيِّهِۦ) ولي دمه {مَا شَهِدْنَا مُهْلَكَ أَهْلِهِ» وَإِنَّا لَصَدِفُونَ))، لما قال لهم صالح إنّهم سيهلكون بعد ثلاثة أيام قالوا إنّهم سيهلكون صالحا في هذه الليلة، وودعوا الناس أنّهم يريدون سفرا وذهبوا إلى مغارة يستخفون فيها إذا جاء الليل يأتون بيت صالح ويقتلونه ويقتلون من حوله ويقولون إننا ما حضرنا كنا مسافرين فطبق اللّٰه عليهم الجبل فأهلكوا هنالك ( وَمَكَرُواْ مَكْراً وَمَكَرْنَا مَكْراً وَهُمْ لا يَشْعُرُونُ بَانظُرْ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَقِبَةُ مَكْرِهِمْ و إِنَّا دَمَّرْنَٰهُمْ ) أهلكناهم (وَقَوْمَهُمْ أَجْمَعِينٌ مَتِلْكَ بُيُوتُهُمْ خَاوِيَةً) خالية (بِمَا ظَلَمُوا)

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 37, ¶119 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

سيدنا محمد وسلم.

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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. 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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