Sūrat Al-Nisāʾ · 4 : 43

Q 4:43 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اَ۬لذِينَ لَا وَأَنتُمْ حَتَّيٰ مَا وَلَا اِلَّا حَتَّيٰ وَإِن أَوْ عَلَيٰ اَوْ مِّنكُم مِّنَ أَوْ فَلَمْ إِنَّ

O ye who believe! Draw not near unto prayer when ye are drunken, till ye know that which ye utter, nor when ye are polluted, save when journeying upon the road, till ye have bathed. And if ye be ill, or on a journey, or one of you cometh from the closet, or ye have touched women, and ye find not water, then go to high clean soil and rub your faces and your hands (therewith). Lo! Allah is Benign, Forgiving — 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 11, ¶39 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 161 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

كلا، نطقت كل جارحة بما عملت فلم يكتموا شيئا (يَأَيُّهَا ألذِيسَ ءَامَنُوا لا تَقْرَبُواْ الصَلَةَ الآية الثالثة من آيات الخمر، لما نزل "يَسْتَلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرَ قُلْ فِيهِمَا إِثّمْ كَبِيرٌ وَمَنَاجِعُ لِلنَّاس" شرب بعض وترك بعضٌ، فعمل عبد الرحمن بن عوف وليمة واستحضر كبراء الصحابة، فأكلوا وشربوا الخمر وقدَّموا سيدنا عليا بن أبي طالب لصلاة المغرب فقرا سورة "الكافرون" بحذف اللاءات كلا، فقال (يَايُّهَا ألذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لا تَقْرَبُواْ الصَّلَوةَ) لا تصلوا (وَأَنتُمْ سُكَرِى) من الشراب \! (حَتَّىٰ تَعْلَمُواْ مَا تَقُولُونَ) بأن تصحوا، فقراً الرسول هذه الآية فقال عمر: اللهم بين لنا في الخمر بيانا كافيا، إلى الآن ما تبين الحكم، بعضهم يشرب إذا أراد النوم في الليل ويصحو قبل صلاة الصبح فيصلي وهو غير سكران، وبعضهم ترك مطلقا حتى نزلت الآية الرابعة من سورة المائدة حرمت الخمر تماما وَلَا جُنْباً) بإيلاج أو إنزال (إِلاَّ عَابِرِى سَبِيلٍ)) لا تقربوا الصلاة وأنتم جنب إلا مجتازين …

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

حرمت، وقال بعضهم: لا، حرمت في أوقات الصلاة فقط فكان بعضهم يترك الخمر إذا أصبح حتى يصلي الصلوات الخمس وبعدها يتناول الخمر ويبيت سكران وإذا أصبح أصبح صاحبا ويصلي، فقال عمر: اللهم بيِّن لنا في الخمر بيانا شافيا فنزلت "تَأَيُّهَا ألذِيسَ ءَامَنُوَاْ إِنَّمَا ألْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالأَنصَابِ وَالأَزْلَمَ رِجْسٌ مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَن فَاجْتَنِبُوةُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَفْلِحُونْ إِنَّمَا يْرِيدُ الشَّيْطَنُ أَنْ يُوقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاءَ فِي الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ وَيَصَدَّكُمْ عَن ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَعَنِ الصَّلَوةِ فَهَلَ انتُم مُنتَهَونَ" انتهوا، فقال عمر: اللهم انتهيا اللهم انتهينا.[23] فحرمت الخمر من يومئذ واشتد تحريمها. أشد تحريم هو تحريم الخمر فلهذا قال علي كرم اللّٰه وجهه: لو صب خمر في بئر وبنيت منارة عليها لا أؤذن عليها، ولو صب

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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 15, ¶32 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 84 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ءامنوا وَعَبلوا الصَّلِحَٰتِ جَنَاحٌ بِيمَا طَعِمُوًا) أي أكلوا والطعم هنا الشرب [2] وإنا ا ا

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Lesson 15 runs Q 5:82–Q 6:35. 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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