Q 4:39 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَمَاذَا عَلَيْهِمْ لَوَ مِمَّا بِهِمْ

What have they (to fear) if they believe in Allah and the Last Day and spend (aright) of that which Allah hath bestowed upon them, when Allah is ever Aware of them (and all they 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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 11, ¶25 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

القيامة وقف الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وشفع وشفع الأنبياء وشفع العلماء وشفع الشهداء والمؤمنون حتى لم يبق في النار إلا من لا شفيع له فيقول الرب تبارك وتعالى: شفع الأنبياء والشهداء والأولياء والعلماء والمؤمنون لم يبق إلا أنا وأنا أرحم الراحمين، انظروا في النار كل من كان في قلبه مثقال دينار من إيمان فأخرجوه من النار فيُخرجون خلقا كثيرا، فيقول انظروا من كان عنده نصف دينار فأخرجوه فيُخرِجون خلقا كثيرا، فيقول انظروا في النار من كان عنده مثقال ذرة من إيمان فأخرجوه فيُخرِجون خلقا كثيرا، وبعد ذلك يأخذ قبضة لم يسبق لهم خير قط ويدخلهم الجنة بفضله وكرمه، هذا معنى «وَإِن تَكُ حَسَنَةࣱ يُضَٰعِفْهَا وَيُوتِ مِن لَّدُنْهُ أَجْراً عَظِيماࣰۖ» يؤتي شيئا من عنده فقط ليس للعبد فيه أي سبب[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.

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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