Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 10

Q 4:10 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ اِنَّمَا فِے

Lo! Those who devour the wealth of orphans wrongfully, they do but swallow fire into their bellies, and they will be exposed to burning flame — 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-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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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Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 10, ¶62 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 124 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

صوابا بأن يأمروه أن يتصدق بدون ثلثه ويدع الباقي لورئته ولا يتركهم عالة 1. والَ ألذِيق يَاكُلُونَ أَمْوَلَ الْيَتَمِى ظلْماً بغير حق (اِنَّمَا يَاكُلُونَ فِے بُطُونِهِمْ) مثلها ((نَاراً) لأنه يؤول إليها (وَسَيَصْلَوْنَ) يدخلون ( سَعِيراً)) نارا شديدة يحترقون فيها. قال الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم ليلة أسري به أنه صلى اللّه عليه وسلم مر بخلق رجال كل منهم له مشفر كمشفر البعير ويلقمون الجمرات من النار فتخرج من أدبارهم فقال من هؤلاء؟ قال: هؤلاء أكلة أموال اليتامى 2.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 10, ¶64 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 124 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يا جبريل من هؤلاء؟ قال: هؤلاء الذين يأكلون أموال اليتامى ظلما إنما يأكلون في بطونهم نارا وسيصلون سعيرا. تفسير ابن كثير ج457/1.

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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.

The verse used, not interpreted

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 6, ¶51 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(وَيَسْئَلُونَكَ عَنِ الْيَتَمِى) وما يلقونه من الحرج في شأنهِم، لما نزلت آية "إِنَّ ألذِينَ يَاكْلُونَ أَمْوَلَ اليَتَمِى ظَلْماً إِنَّمَا يَاكُلُونَ فِي بُطَونِهِمْ نَاراً وَسَيَصْلَوْنَ سَعِيرًا شكوا من أمر اليتامى قالوا ما نفعل بأموال اليتامى أنخلط أموالهم بأموالنا فنتحرج أو نعزل أموالهم وإذا عزلناها ضاعت وكيف نصنع لهم طعاما وكذا تحرجوا في شأن اليتامى قال تعالى

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Lesson 6 runs Q 2:203–Q 2:252. 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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 6, ¶52 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 1, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

«وَيَسْئَلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلْيَتَابِى» (قَلِ إِصْلَحٌ لَهُمْ) في أموالهم بتنميتها ومداخلتكم (خَيْرَ) من ترك ذلك (وَإِن تُخَالِطُوهُمْ) تخلطوا نفقتكم بنفقتهم (بَإِخْوَانُكُمْ) فهم إخوانكم في الدين ومن شأن الأخ أن يخالط أخاه فلكم ذلك. للإنسان أن يجعل مال يتيمه في ماله ويحفظه له حتى إذا بلغ رشده يسلم له ماله ويأخذ منه نفقته وكسوته ويحسبها عليه وما بقي يسلمه له عندما يقوى ويبلغ رشده هذا هو الأصلح في شأن اليتامى (وَاللَّهُ يَعْلَمْ الْمَبْسِدَ) لأموالهم عند المخالطة، من قصد الإفساد علمه اللّٰه (صَ الْمُصْلِحْ) ومن قصد الإصلاح أيضا علمه اللّٰه فيجازي كلا منهما (وَلَوْ شَآءَ اَ۬للَّهُ لَأَعْنَتَكُمُۥٓۖ) لضيق عليكم بشحريم المخالطة (إِنَّ اللَّهُ عَزِيزٌ) غالب على أمره ( حَكِيم ) في صنعه. ورد في فضائل

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Lesson 6 runs Q 2:203–Q 2:252. 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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