وَمَا كَانَ قَوۡلَهُمۡ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُواْ رَبَّنَا ٱغۡفِرۡ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَإِسۡرَافَنَا فِيٓ أَمۡرِنَا وَثَبِّتۡ أَقۡدَامَنَا وَٱنصُرۡنَا عَلَى ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ
Their cry was only that they said: Our Lord! forgive us for our sins and wasted efforts, make our foothold sure, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk
In the printed edition: Sūrat Āl ʿImrān begins at vol. 2, p. 34 (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 9, ¶111 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
اللَّهِ) من الجراح وقتل أنبيائهم (وَمَا ضَعْعُوا) عن الجهاد (وَمَا إسْتَكَانُوا) ما خضعوا لعدوهم لموت نبيهم كما فعلتم أنتم حين قيل قتل النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (وَاللَّهُ يُحِبٌّ الصَّبِرِينَ) يثيبهم ( وَمَا كَالَ فَوْلَهُمْ ٨ عند قتل نبيهم مع ثباتهم وصبرهم …
Read in context →The verse as structure — acrostic, tawassul, or the letters themselves — not as an object of interpretation.
before 1959 · English · al-Ṭāqa al-dharriyya al-muwajjaha li-aʿdāʾ khayr al-bariyya (ALA #74)
Recorded, not yet transcribed. MS NU/Falke 1988; NU/Paden 250, 283
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.