Q 40:8 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَدْنٍ اِ۬لتِے وَمَن مِنَ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ

Our Lord! And make them enter the Gardens of Eden which thou hast promised them, with such of their fathers and their wives and their descendants as do right. Lo! Thou, only Thou, art the Mighty, the Wise — 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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 44, ¶16 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 159 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يصدقون بوحدانيته (وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ لِلذِينَ ءَامَنُوا) يطلبون المغفرة لأبناء آدم والحكمة في ظليهم المغفرة لهم أنهم تكلموا في بني آدم حيث قالوا "أتَجْعَلَ هِيهَا مَنْ يُفْيدُ مِيهَا وَكَسْبِكَ الدّمَآءَ ولما وقع منهم ذلك أمرهم اللّه بالاستغفار لهم جبرا لما وقع منهم. ففيه تنبيه على أن من تكلم في غيره ينبغي له أن يستغفر له. الإنسان يحفظ لسانه من الغيبة وإن اغتاب أحدا فلا أقل من أن يستغفر له كما فعلت الملائكة. لهذا طلب واحد من أحد الصالحين أن يدعو اللّٰه له ويستغفر له قال له: آمن بالله ويستغفر لك من هو خير مني يشير إلى «وَيَسْتَغْفِرُونَ لِلذِينَ ءَامَنُوا» الملائكة يستغفرون للذين آمنوا (رَبَّنَا وَسِعْتَ كُلَّ شَےْءࣲ رَّحْمَةࣰ وَعِلْماࣰ) وسعت رحمتك كل شيء وعلمك كل شيء (قَاغْمِرْ لِلذِيرَ تَابُوا) من الشرك (وَاتَّبَعُواْ سَبِيلَكَ دين الإسلام وَقِهِمْ عَذَابَ الْجَحِيمِ) النار ( رَبَّنَا وَأَدْخِلْهُمْ جَنَّتِ عَدْنٍ) جنات إقامة (اِ۬لتِے وَعَدتَّهُمْ وَمَن صَلَحَ مِنَ اٰبَآئِهِمْ …

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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 28, ¶13 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 5, p. 70 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أين أبي، أين أمي، أين ولدي، أين زوجتي؟ فيقال: لم يعملوا مثل عملك، فيقول: كنت أعمل لي ولهم، فيقال أدخلوهم الجنة ثم قرأ "جَنَّتِ عَدْدٍ ألتِّى وَعَدتَّهُمْ..." الآية.[2]

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Lesson 28 runs Q 13:19–Q 14:52. 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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