Q 9:121 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

وَلَا وَلَا وَلَا اِلَّا لَهُمْۖ مَا

Nor spend they any spending, small or great, nor do they cross a valley, but it is recorded for them, that Allah may repay them the best of what they used to do — 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, ¶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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Fī riyāḍ al-tafsīr li-l-Qurʾān al-karīm

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 23, ¶70 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

جماعة ومكث الباقون لِيَتًفَّهُوا الماكثون فى الدِّيِ وَلِيُنذِرُواْ قَوْمَهُمُ إِذَا رَجَعُوا إِلَيْهِمْ من الغزو بتعليمهم ما تعلموه من الأحكام (لَعَلَّهُمْ يَحْذَرُونَ) عقاب اللّٰه بامتثال أمره ونهيه. قال ابن عباس: فهذه مخصوصة بالسرايا والتي قبلها بالنهي عن تخلف واحد فيها إذا خرج النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم هو وعاء النبوءة ووعاء الوحي، إذا خرج إلى غزو فلا يتخلفن أحد يقدر على أن يذهب فليخرجوا جميعا، وإذا أرسل سرية وتخلف الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم، لا ينبغي أن يخرج المسلمون جميعا يخرج من عينهم النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم ويبقى الباقون مع الرسول يتعلمون العلم. هذه الآية في فضيلة العلم، وإن الملائكة لتضع أجنحتها للمتعلمون تكريما لهم والله تبارك وتعالى يأمرهم أن

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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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