Q 87:7 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِلَّا مَا إِنَّهُۥ وَمَا

Save that which Allah willeth. Lo! He knoweth the disclosed and that which still is hidden 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-Aʿlā begins at vol. 10, p. 167 (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 55, ¶4 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 167 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

"غُثَاءً آحْوِى" والساجد أقرب لغثاء أحوى. فلهذا الشارع وضع هذا الذكر هنالك وهذا هنا ( ألذِى خَلَقَ قَسَوِّىٰ خلق مخلوقه جميعه وجعله متناسب الأجزاء غير متفاوت (وَالذِى فَدَّرَ ما شاء (قَهَدى إلى ما قدره من خير وشر (وَالذِي أَخْرَجَ الْمَرْعِبى) أنبت العشب (جَجَعَلَهُ و) بعد الخضرة (غَثَاءً) جافا هشيما ®آحْوِى) أسود يابسا (سَنفْرِئُكَ) القرآن بَلا تَنسِىّ) ضمن الحق تبارك وتعالى أن يقرئ النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم القرآن فلا ينساه (إِلاَّ مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ) أن تنساه بنسخ تلاوته وحكمه، كان صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم يجهر بالقراءة أمام جبريل خوف النسيان فتكفل الحق تبارك وتعالى أن يقرئه القرآن ولا ينساه وأنه يجمع القرآن في صدره ويجمع القرآن ويقرا ويفسر، وقد وفى بما وعد تبارك وتعالى. أقرأه القرآن فلم ينس منه شيئا إلا ما شاء الله. ما هذا الذي شاءه الله؟ هو المنسوخ والمنسوخ تقدمت أقسامه ما نسخت تلاوته وحكمه كعشر رضعات معلومات قد يحرمن هذه كانت آية تتلى فنسخت تلاوتها ونسخ حكمها أيضا[2]، والشيخ والشيخة

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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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