Q 28:55 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِذَا عَنْهُ لَنَآ وَلَكُمُۥٓ عَلَيْكُمْ لَا

And when they hear vanity they withdraw from it and say: Unto us our works and unto you your works. Peace be unto you! We desire not the ignorant — 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-Qaṣaṣ begins at vol. 7, p. 114 (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 38, ¶136 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 7, p. 96 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وينفقون مما رزقناهم (وَاذا سَمِعُواْ أللَّغْوَ الشتم والأذى ( أَعْرَضُواْ عَنْهُ وَقَالُواْ لَنَا أَعْمَلْنَا ولَكَمْ أَعْمَلْكُمْ سَلَمّ عَلَيْكُمْ) أي متاركة سلمتم منا من الشتم وغيره (لا تَبْتَفِي الجَاهلِين) لا نصحبهم (إِنَّكَ لَا تَهْدِے مَنَ اَحْبَبْتَۖ) نزلت هذه الآية في حرص النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم على إيمان عمه أبي طالب. كان أبو طالب يحب النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وحماه من كفار قريش مدة حياته، ومدحه ونصره وفعل له كل خير، فلما حانت وفاته دخل عليه النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وقال: يا عم قل لا إله إلا اللّٰه محمد رسول اللّٰه كلمة واحدة أحاج بها لك عند اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى. فقال: أنا أحبك وأحب كل ما تحب بيد أني أخشى أن يعيرك قريش أنت وإخوتك أن أباكم فزع عند الموت فلهذا نطق بالشهادة، لولا هذا لقلتها. قال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: قلها، وأبو جهل وعبد اللّٰه بن أبي أمية جلوس حوله يقولون: مت على دين الأشياخ عبد المطلب وعبد مناف ذلك خير من هذا، حتى خرج النبي ولم يتكلم بالكلمة بعد ذلك …

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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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