Verily We sent messengers before thee, among them those of whom We have told thee, and some of whom We have not told thee; and it was not given to any messenger that he should bring a portent save by Allah's leave, but when Allah's commandment cometh (the cause) is judged aright, and the followers of vanity will then be lost — 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 Ghāfir begins at vol. 8, p. 159(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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Exegesis of the verse
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 44, ¶87 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
تتوسعون في الفرح ( أدْخُلُوَا أَبْوَابَ جَهَنَّمَ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا فَبِيسَ مَثْوَى الْمُتَكَبِّرِيقٌ بَاصْبِرٍ) يا محمد (انَّ وَعْدَ اللَّهِ) بعذابهم (حَقٌّ فَإِمَّا نُرِيَنَّكَ بَعْضَ ألذِ نَعِدُهُمْ) في حياتك فذاك (أَوْ نَتَوَفَّيَنَّكَ) قبل تعذيبهم ( إِلَيْنَا يُرْجَعُون) فنعذبهم أشد العذاب. (وَلَقَدَ ارْسَلْنَا رُسُلًا صِ قَبْلِكَ مِنْهُم مَن قَصَصْنَا عَلَيْكَ وَمِنْهُم مَن لَمْ نَقْصُص عَلَيْكَ) إن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى بعث عددا من الأنبياء والمرسلين، قص على النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم بعضا منهم؛ هم خمسة وعشرون تقدم ذكرهم في سورة الأنعام، «وَمِنَّهُم مَن لَمْ نَقْصُصْ عَلَيْكٌ» قال
في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 44, ¶90 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
مائة ألف وأربعة وعشرون ألفا جم غفير وإذا لم نعرف عددهم حيث أن منهم من قصصنا عليك ومنهم من لم نقصص عليك نترك العلم لله تبارك وتعالى (وَمَا ككَاتَ لِرَسُولِ أن اتِي بِثَايَةِ الأَبِإِذْنِ الَّهِ لأنهم عبيد مربوبون (فَإِذَا جَآءَ امْرُ اُ۬للَّهِ) بنزول العذاب (فَضِيَ)
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.