Q 42:23 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

ذَٰلِكَ اَ۬لذِے اُ۬لذِينَ لَّآ عَلَيْهِ اِلَّا فِے وَمَنْ لَهُۥ فِيهَا اِنَّ

This it is which Allah announceth unto His bondmen who believe and do good works. Say (O Muhammad, unto mankind): I ask of you no fee therefor, save lovingkindness among kinsfolk. And whoso scoreth a good deed We add unto its good for him. Lo! Allah is Forgiving, Responsive — 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-Shūrā begins at vol. 8, p. 207 (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 45, ¶46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 203 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(وَاقِعُۢ بِهِمْۖ وَالذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ اُ۬لصَّٰلِحَٰتِ فِے رَوْضَاتِ اِ۬لْجَنَّاتِۖ) أنزهها بالنسبة إلى ما دونهم (لَهُم مَّا يَشَآءُونَ عِندَ رَبِّهِمْۖ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ اَ۬لْفَضْلُ اُ۬لْكَبِيرُۖ ذَٰلِكَ اَ۬لذِے يُبَشِّرُ) تبشيرا ( اللَّه عِبَادَهُ ألذِينَ ءَامَنُوا) الجنة وما فيها من النعيم ويكفي مبالغة في سعة نعيم الجنة أن لهم فيها ما يشاءون. هذا تبشير المؤمنين الذين آمنوا (وَعَمِلُواْ اُ۬لصَّٰلِحَٰتِۖ قُل لَّآ أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ) إن قوما من المدينة جمعوا كثيرا من الأموال وأتوا بها إلى رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم مكافأة لهدايته لهم فقال اللّه «فُل لاَّ أَسْئَلُكُمْ» (عَلَيْهِ) على التبليغ (أَجْراً) ما بلغهم الرسالة طالبا للأجر منهم (إِلاَّ الْمَوَدَّةَ مِى الْفُرْبِى)) لكن أسألكم أن تودوا قرابتي التي هي قرابتكم فإن له في كل بطن من قريش قرابة. المودة في القربى فسرها العلماء بتفسيرين: أن تودوه هو لقرابته منهم أي تحبوني لقرابتي لكم، أو «اِلَّا اَ۬لْمَوَدَّةَ فِے …

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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. 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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