Q 8:43 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِذْ فِے وَلَوَ فِے وَلَٰكِنَّ إِنَّهُۥ بِذَاتِ

When Allah showed them unto thee (O Muhammad) in thy dream as few in number, and if He had shown them to thee as many, ye (Muslims) would have faltered and would have quarrelled over the affair. But Allah saved (you). Lo! He knoweth what is in the breasts (of men) — 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 21, ¶8 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 44 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جمعكم اللّٰه بغير ميعاد (لِيَقْضِىَ اللَّهُ أَمْراً كَارَ مَفْعُولًا ) في علمه وهو نصر الإسلام ومحق الكفر فعل ذلك (لِيَهْلِكَ) يكفر (مَنْ هَلَكَ عَنْ بَيِّنَةِ) أي بعد حجة ظاهرة قامت عليه، وهو نصر المؤمنين مع قلتهم على الجيش الكثير (وَيَحْيى) يؤمن ((مَنْ حَيِيَ عَنۢ بَيِّنَةࣲۖ وَإِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ لَسَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌۖ اِذْ يُرِيكَهُمُ اُ۬للَّهُ فِے مَنَامِكَ) نومك (فَلِيلًا) رأى الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم جيش الكفار وهم نحو سبعين فأخبر بذلك فسروا (وَلَوَ اَرِيْكَهُمْ كَثِيراً لَمَشِلْتُمْ) جبنتم (وَلَتَنَزَعْتُمْ) اختلفتم (فِے اِ۬لَامْرِۖ وَلَٰكِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ سَلَّمَۖ) سلمكم من الفشل والتنازع (إِنَّهُو عَلِيمٌ بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ) بما في القلوب { وَإِذْ يُرِيكُمُوهُم أيها المؤمنون إِذ إلْتَقَيْتُمْ يِّ أَعْيُنِكُمْ قَلِيلًا ) نحو سبعين أيضا أو مائة وهم ألف لتقدموا عليهم (وَيُقَلِّلْكُمْ فِيِ أَعْيُنِهِمْ) ويقلل المؤمنين أيضا في أعين الكفار فلما التحما أراهم إياهم مثليهم كما في آل عمران، لما …

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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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