Q 9:107 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

اِ۬لذِينَ لِّمَنْ مِن إِنَ إِلَّا إِنَّهُمْ

And as for those who chose a place of worship out of opposition and disbelief, and in order to cause dissent among the believers, and as an outpost for those who warred against Allah and His messenger aforetime, they will surely swear: We purposed naught save good. Allah beareth witness that they verily are liars — 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-Tawba begins at vol. 4, p. 74 (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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶28 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

وقام إليهم الغلام فقال: هذا أبو ذر صاحب رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فأعينونا على دفنه. قال فاستهل عبد اللّه بن مسعود يبكي ويقول: صدق رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، تمشي وحدك وتموت وحدك وتبعث وحدك. ثم نزل هو وأصحابه فواروه ثم حدثهم عبد اللّٰه بن مسعود حديثه وما قال له رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم في مسيره إلى تبوك.

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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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶30 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(آمين) [1] فذهب إلى قريش فلما طردوا في غزوة الأحزاب فر ولحق بالشام، فلما أسلم أهل الشام فر من الشام ولما توسط الطريق مات في فلاة طريدا وحيدا فدفن هناك، هو أبو عامر الفاسق لما كان في مدة تخلفه عن المدينة وهو يدعو في الملوك يطلب جيشا يقاتل به الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أرسل إلى المنافقين أن يبنوا مسجدا إذا أتاه يجعله معقلا ينزل فيه هو ومن معه لقتال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فجاء المنافقون إلى الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم قالوا: نحب أن نبني مسجدا قريبا منا تيسيرا للضعفاء وللعميان، فظن الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أن الأمر على ظاهره فتركهم بنوا مسجدهم فلما أتموا المسجد قالوا له آت تصل في مسجدنا نتبرك بصلاتك. فوعدهم الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم بعد أن يرجع من تبوك فلما رجع من تبوك أتوا إليه أيضا، طلبوا خروج النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم إلى مسجدهم فنزلت هذه الآية «ألذِينَ إتَّخَذُواْ مَسْجِداً ضِرَاراً» مضارة لأهل مسجد قباء ( وَكُفْرا[٣] لأنهم بنوه بأمر الكافر وَتَفْرِيفاً بَيْرَ الْمُومِنِينَ) …

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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. 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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