Q 9:108 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَا فِيهِ عَلَي مِنَ أَن فِيهِۖ فِيهِ أَنْ

Never stand (to pray) there. A place of worship which was found upon duty (to Allah) from the first day is more worthy that thou shouldst stand (to pray) therein, wherein are men who love to purify themselves. Allah loveth the purifiers — 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

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶35 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

يلي ذلك أرسلوا ثلاثة وسبعين رجلا وعشر نسوان فأكدوا البيعة فعزم الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم على الهجرة إلى المدينة، فلما بايعوا الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم على أنهم يسلمون أنفسهم وأموالهم له سألوه مالهم؟ قال لهم الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: الجنة، فقبلوا المبايعة فتبايعوا فنزلت فيهم هذه الآية. هذه الآية وصفت بيعتهم وأكدتها بعشرة أوصاف، في هذه الآية: «اِنَّ اَ۬للَّهَ اَ۪شْتَر۪يٰ مِنَ اَ۬لْمُومِنِينَ أَنفُسَهُمْ وَأَمْوَٰلَهُم بِأَنَّ لَهُمُ اُ۬لْجَنَّةَۖ» المسلم يسلم نفسه وماله لله طلبا للجنة، والخواص منهم يسلمون أنفسهم وأموالهم لوجه اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، فالكل مبايعة. الناس على أقسام: الأنبياء أحرار لا يجوز بيعهم، والباقون المسلمون وغيرهم، الكفار لا يجوز شراؤهم لأنهم نجس، فبقي الشراء خاصا بالمسلمين «انَّ أللَّهَ إَشْتَرِى مِنَ الْمُومِنِينَ أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَأَمْوَلَهُم» هو مالك العباد ومالك أموالهم يشتري شيئا هو له، هذا كرم ليس بيعا لأن الكل له ومنه وإليه. فلما وقعت هذه المبايعة احتج …

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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.

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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