وَمَن لَّمْ مِنكُمْ اَنْ فَمِن مَّا مِّن مِّنۢ وَلَا فَإِذَآ فَإِنَ فَعَلَيْهِنَّ مَا عَلَي مِنَ ذَٰلِكَ لِمَنْ مِنكُمْۖ وَأَن لَّكُمْۖ
And whoso is not able to afford to marry free, believing women, let them marry from the believing maids whom your right hands possess. Allah knoweth best (concerning) your faith. Ye (proceed) one from another; so wed them by permission of their folk, and give unto them their portions in kindness, they being honest, not debauched nor of loose conduct. And if when they are honourably married they commit lewdness they shall incur the half of the punishment (prescribed) for free women (in that case). This is for him among you who feareth to commit sin. But to have patience would be better for you. Allah is Forgiving, Merciful — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ begins at vol. 2, p. 146 (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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 11, ¶4 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مهورهن التي فرضتم لهن (فَرِيضَةً وَلاَ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ فِيمَا تَرْضَيْتُم) أنتم وهن ( به، مِنْ بَعْدِ الْقِبِضَةٍ) من حطها أو بعضها أو زيادة عليها. العوائد في النكاح كلما تراضى الزوج مع الزوجة فلا بأس بذلك وإِنَّ أللَّةَ كَانَ عَلِيماً) بخلقه (حَكِيماً)) في …
Read in context →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.