O ye who believe! When believing women come unto you as fugitives, examine them. Allah is Best Aware of their faith. Then, if ye know them for true believers, send them not back unto the disbelievers. They are not lawful for them (the disbelievers), nor are they (the disbelievers) lawful for them. And give them (the disbelievers) that which they have spent (upon them). And it is no sin for you to marry such women when ye have given them their dues. And hold not to the ties of disbelieving women; and ask for (the return of) that which ye have spent; and let them (the disbelievers) ask for that which they have spent. That is the judgment of Allah. He judgeth between you. Allah is Knower, 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 Al-Mumtaḥana begins at vol. 9, p. 224(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 50, ¶135 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 9, p. 189 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
من الكفار بعد الصلح معهم في الحديبية (بَامْتَحِنُوهُنَّ) بالحلف أنهن ما خرجن إلا رغبة في الإسلام لا بغضا لأزواجهن ولا عشقا لرجال من المسلمين، كذا كان النبي صلى اللّه عليه وسلم يقول: أقسمي بالله أنك ما خرجتِ إلا رغبة في الإسلام لا بغضا في زوجك ولا رغبة في أحد من رجال المسلمين 1 (اَ۬للَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِإِيمَٰنِهِنَّۖ فَإِنْ عَلِمْتُمُوهُنَّ) ظنتموهن (مُومِنَٰتٍ فَلا تَرْجِعُوهنَّ) لا تردوهن (إِلَى الْكُمَّارِ لَا هُنَّ حِلٌّ لَهُمْ لا يجوز تزويج الكافر بالمسلمة (وَلاَ هُمْ يَحِلُّونَ لَهُنَّ) ولا يجوز تزويج المسلمة بالكافر (وَءَاتُوهُم مَا أَنَفُواْ إذا فرت زوجة أحد من الكفار أرسلوا له ماله (وَلا جُنَاحَ عَلَيْكُمْ وَ أَن تَنكِحُوهُنَّ) وتتزوجوا هن (إِذَا ءَاتَيْتُمُوهُرَّ أُجُورَهُنَّ مهورهن (وَلَا تُمْسِكُواْ بِعِصَمِ الْكَوَامِرِ) فإن الإسلام قطع العصمة فتعتد المسلمة وتتزوج بالمسلمين (ووَسْئَلُوا مَآ أَنَفْتُمْ) إذا فرت امرأة وارتدت ولحقت بالكفار، أرسلوا إلى الكفار يردوا إليكم ما …
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.