Q 5:23 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مِنَ اَ۬لذِينَ عَلَيْهِمَا عَلَيْهِمُ فَإِذَا فَإِنَّكُمْ وَعَلَي إِن

Then out spake two of those who feared (their Lord, men) unto whom Allah had been gracious: Enter in upon them by the gate, for if ye enter by it, lo! ye will be victorious. So put your trust (in Allah) if ye are indeed believers — 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-Māʾida begins at vol. 3, p. 33 (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 14, ¶2 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

أخبروا الناس بحال الجبابرة فجبنوا منهم إلا كالب ويوشع فقط هما اللذان خافا اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى وكتما أحوال الجبابرة إلا عن موسى عليه الصلاة والسلام وهارون ( أَنْعَمَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمَا بالعصمة فكتما ما اطلعا عليه من حالهم إلا عن موسى بخلاف بقية النقباء فأفشوه وجبنوا ( أَدْخُلُواْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْبَابَ) باب القرية ولا تخشوهم فإنهم أجساد بلا قلوب، حالة الكفار (فَإِذَا دَخَلْتُمُوهُ فَإِنَّكُمْ غَٰلِبُونَۖ) وَعَدُوهم أنهم إذا دخلوا سيغلبون الجبابرة، وهم من أين لهم علم بذلك؟ بوعد اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى: "إِدْخُلُواْ الاَرْضَ الْمُفَدَّسَةَ ألتِى كَتَبَ

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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 14, ¶3 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 49 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

اللَّهُ لكَمّ لما وعدهم الله أن الأرض لهم وهم وائقون بوعد اللّه علموا أنهم سينصرون عليهم وهذا خففوا عليهم الأمر "أدْخُلُواْ عَلَيْهِمْ أَلْبَابَ" بمجرد وصولكم لباب القرية ستغلبونه بدليل (وَعَلَى أَللَّهِ فَتَوَكَّلُوْاْ إِن كَنتُم مُومِنِينَ إن اللّه وعدكم النصر. الأرض المقدسة هي الأرض التي كان يسكنها الأنبياء والظرف يشرف بشرف مظروفه تقدست بسبب سكني الأنبياء والمرسلين فإذا طاب المظروف طاب الظرف. نعم يسكنها الجبابرة أيضا ولكن الخير يغلب الشر، فلهذا غلب الخير على الشر حتى أن سكنى الجبابرة ما منع الأرض من أن

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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.

Read in the school

Not Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s words. Students and successors reading the same verse — kept below and apart, because a school’s reading is evidence of transmission, not of what the master said.

al-Qanābil al-yadawiyya fī l-dhabb ʿan ṭarīq al-ṣūfiyya

Muḥammad al-Mishrīالقنابل اليدوية في الذب عن طريق الصوفيةproof-text

rev. July 2018 · Arabic · Question 15 · tr. Saʿīd Simone Nardella & Adnan Wood-Smith · answered in writing

I was speaking one day with Sidi Muhammad alHafiz b. Feten and reviewing with him my understanding of Allah’s speech, when he said to me that my father (r.a.a.) had said to him that he was able to extract all the meanings of the Qur’an from His (t.) words, “Two men said” (Qur’an 5:23).

Muḥammad al-Mishrī, not Shaykh Ibrāhīm — the school reading, in a responsum. Question 15.

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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