Q 38:24 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَقَد إِلَيٰ وَإِنَّ مِّنَ عَلَيٰ اِلَّا اَ۬لذِينَ مَّا هُمْۖ دَاوُۥدُ أَنَّمَا

(David) said: He hath wronged thee in demanding thine ewe in addition to his ewes, and lo! many partners oppress one another, save such as believe and do good works, and they are few. And David guessed that We had tried him, and he sought forgiveness of his Lord, and he bowed himself and fell down prostrate and repented — 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 Ṣād begins at vol. 8, p. 113 (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 43, ¶67 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بعبر بهذه النعاج بأنّها نساء وأنَّها زوجات داود، والصواب أنّها نعاج من البقر فقط - تخاصموا على نعاج من البقر - هذه تسع وتسعون نعجة لأخي (وَلِي نَعْجَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ بَقَالَ أَكْمِلْنِيهَا) اجعلني كافلها (وَعَزَّنِ مِي اِلْخِطَابُ) الجدال حتى أخذ مني نعجتي واستكمل بها مائة وبقيت أنا ليس عندي ولا نعجة واحدة قَالَ) داود (لَقَد ظَلَمَكَ بِسُؤَالِ نَعْجَتِكَ) ليضمها (إِلَيٰ نِعَاجِهِۦۖ وَإِنَّ كَثِيراࣰ مِّنَ اَ۬لْخُلَطَآءِ) الشركاء (لَيَبْغِے بَعْضُهُمْ عَلَيٰ بَعْضٍ اِلَّا اَ۬لذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ اُ۬لصَّٰلِحَٰتِۖ وَقَلِيلࣱ مَّا هُمْۖ) وقال المفسر من زلته أيضا: فقال لملكان وهما صاعدان في صورتيهما إلى السماء: قضى الرجل على نفسه فتنبه داود. ليس هكذا؛ إنّما قضى بحجة واحدة، تكلم واحد فحكم قبل أن يتكلم الآخر [1]، ليس هذا من آداب القضاء ( وَظَرَّ دَاوُدُ أَنَّمَا بَتَنّهُ علم أنه افتتن في هذه القضية حيث عجل بالقضاء ( اسْتَغْبَرَ رَبَّهُ وَخَرَّ رَاكِعا ساجدا ( وَأَنَابَ بَغَبَرْنَا لَهُ و …

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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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