Q 4:128 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَإِنِ مِنۢ اَوِ فَلَا عَلَيْهِمَآ أَنْ وَإِن فَإِنَّ بِمَا

If a woman feareth ill treatment from her husband, or desertion, it is no sin for them twain if they make terms of peace between themselves. Peace is better. But greed hath been made present in the minds (of men). If ye do good and keep from evil, lo! Allah is ever Informed of what ye do — 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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 12, ¶68 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 198 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(وَإِن إِمْرَأَةً خَافَتْ مِنْ بَعْلِهَا نُشُوزاً) هذه الآية نزلت في سيد العالمين وزوجته سودة، لما كبرت سودة بنت زمعة همّ النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم بطلاقها بل طلقها بالماضي، فجلست في طريق المسجد حتى مربها النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، قالت له: ليس لي رغبة في النكاح ولكن لا تطلقني اتركني مع نسائك حتى أكون من نسائك في الجنة، ونوبتي هدية مني إلى عائشة2 فقبل الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وكان يقسم لعائشة ليلتين وللضرات الباقيات ليلة واحدة، بقيت سودة بلا ليلة صلحا مع الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فأبقاها الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كذلك حتى مات عنها بقيت في عصمتها حتى صارت من نسائه في الجنة فنزلت ( وَإِنِ إمْرَأَةُ خَافَتْ) توقعت مِنْ بَعْلِهَا) زوجها نَشوراً ) ترفعا عنها بترك

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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. 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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