Q 8:36 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ عَن ثُمَّ عَلَيْهِمْ ثُمَّ وَالذِينَ إِلَيٰ جَهَنَّمَ

Lo! those who disbelieve spend their wealth in order that they may debar (men) from the way of Allah. They will spend it, then it will become an anguish for them, then they will be conquered. And those who disbelieve will be gathered unto hell — 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-Anfāl begins at vol. 4, p. 30 (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 20, ¶99 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

تصفيقا، جعلوا ذلك موضع صلاتهم جَذُوفُواْ الْعَذَابَ) ببدر (بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَكْفُرُونَۖ إِنَّ اَ۬لذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَٰلَهُمْ) في حرب النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم (لِيَصُدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ اِ۬للَّهِۖ) أبو سفيان اكترى ألفين يوم أحد1 ( جَسَيْنعِفُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ) في عاقبة الأمر (عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةَ) ندامة لفواتها وفوات ما قصدوه ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ) في الدنيا ( وَالذِيسَ كَبَرْواْ) منهم (إِلَى جَهَنَّم في الآخرة يُحْشَرُونَ) يساقون (لِيَمِيزَ اللَّهُ الْخَبِيثَ) يفصل الكافر ومِنَ ألطَّيِّبِ المؤمن {وَيَجْعَلَ الْخَبِيثَ بَعْضَهُو عَلَى بَعْضٍ فَيَرْكُمَهُو جَمِيعاً يجمعه متراكما بعضه على بعض ( جَيَجْعَلَهُ و فِي جَهَنَّمٌ أوْلَيِكَ هُمُ الْخَسِرُونَ قُل لِلذِيرَ كَبَرْوَاْ) كأبي سفيان وأصحابه (إِنْ يَنتَهُوا عن الكفر وقتال النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يُغْبَرْ لَهُم مَا قَدْ سَلَفَ) من أعمالهم (وَإِنْ يَعُودُوا إلى قتاله فَقَدْ مَضَتْ سُنَّتُ الأَوَّلِينُ)، سنتنا فيهم بالإهلاك …

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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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