Q 46:23 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّمَا مَّآ بِهِۦ وَلَٰكِنِّيَ

He said: The knowledge is with Allah only. I convey unto you that wherewith I have been sent, but I see you are a folk that know not — 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-Aḥqāf begins at vol. 9, p. 20 (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 46, ¶115 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أنت سيدة نساء العالم 1 كما أني سيد الرجال أتعلمين لم سماك اللّٰه فاطمة؟ لأنك فطمت نفسك من الدنيا. لِم سميتِ البتول؟ لأنك تبتلت إلى اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، بشرها كثيرا من البشارات. كان عمر يقول لأصحابه: أو كلما اشتهى أحد منكم شيئا اشتراه وأكله فقط؟ أما تخافون أن يقال لكم: أَذْهَبْتُمْ طَيِّبَاتِكُمْ مِي حَيَاتِكُمُ الدُّنْبِا"؟2 «فَالْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ اَ۬لْهُونِ بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَسْتَكْبِرُونَ» (فِي الأَرْضِ بِغَيْرِ اِلْحَقِّ وَبِمَا كُنتُمْ تَمْسُفُونُ وَاذْكْرَ آخَا عَادٍ هود عليه الصلاة والسلام {إِذَ آنذَرَ فَوْمَهُو بِالاَحْفَاِ واد باليمن ووَفَدْ خَلَتِ النُّذْرُ@ مضت الرسل مِنْ بَيْ يَدَيْهِ وَمِنْ خَلْعِهِ أَلاَ تَعْبُدُواْ إِلَّ اللَّهَ إِنّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ عَظِيمٍ قَالُواْ أَجِيْتَنَا لِتَابِكَنَا عَىَ الِهَتِنَا تصرفنا (بَاتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدْنَآ إِى كُنتَ مِنَ الصَّدِقِينَ) في أنه يأتينا قَالَ) هود ( إِنَّمَا الْعِلْمُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ) هو الذي يعلم متى …

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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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