Sūrat Al-Tawba · 9 : 120

Q 9:120 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَا وَمَنْ مِّنَ أَنْ عَن وَلَا عَن ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ لَا وَلَا وَلَا فِے وَلَا وَلَا مِنْ اِلَّا لَهُم بِهِۦ اِنَّ لَا

It is not for the townsfolk of Al-Madinah and for those around them of the wandering Arabs so stay behind the messenger of Allah and prefer their lives to his life. That is because neither thirst nor toil nor hunger afflicteth them in the way of Allah, nor step they any step that angereth the disbelievers, nor gain they from the enemy a gain, but a good deed is recorded for them therefor. Lo! Allah loseth not the wages of the good — 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 الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶62 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(مَا كَانَ لَاهْلِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُم مِنَ الاَعْرَابِ أَنْ يَتَحَلَّبُوا عَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ إذا غزا (وَلَا يَرْغَبُواْ بِأَنفُسِهِمْ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦۖ) بأن يصونوها عما رضيه لنفسه من الشدائد، وهو نهي بلفظ الخبر، لا يجوز للمسلمين أن يصونوا أنفسهم عن رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم كما يقول الصحابي:

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶63 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

لئن قعدنا والنبي يعمل

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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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶68 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

كتب لهم به عمل صالح وَلا مَخْمَصَةٌ جوع (فِي سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ) إلا كتب لهم به عمل صالح، هذه ثلاث وَلا يَطَُّولَ مَوْطِيا وطء ( يَغِيظ الْكُمَّارَ) يُغضب الكفار إلا كتب لهم به عمل صالح وَلا يَنَالُونَ) يقتلون (مِنْ عَدُوِّنَّيْلًا) قتلا (لاَّ كُتِبَ لَهُم بِهِ، عَمَلٌ صَنِلِخٌ) هذه خمس خصال والَ ألَّةَ لاَ يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ أْلْمُحْسِنِينٌ وَلَا يُنعِفُونَ) في الجهاد (نَمَفَة صَغِيرَةَ) هذه خصلة إلا كتب لهم (وَلاَ كَبِيرَةَ) إلا كتب لهم (وَلَا يَقْطَعُونَ وَادِياً))

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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 الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶69 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

بالسير إِلاَّ كُتِبَ لَهُمْ لِيَجْزِيَهُمْ اللَّهُ أَحْسَنَ مَا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ) تلك الدرجات الثمان للمجاهد. ولما وبخوا على التخلف وأرسل النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم سرية نفروا جميعا. لما أنت آيات العتاب عقب نزولها أرسل الرسول سرية فخرج الصحابة جميعا كل أحد يقول إنه يخرج إلى السرية حتى كاد يبقى النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم وحده في المدينة فنزل (وَمَا كَانَ الْمُومِنُونَ لِيَنفِرُوا) إلى الغزو ( كَابَةً بَلَوْلا نَقَرَصِ كُلِّ بِرْفَةٍ) قبيلة (مِنْهُمْ طَابِمَةٌ)

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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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