وَلَئِن سَأَلْتَهُمْ لَيَقُولُنَّ إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُۖ قُلَ اَبِاللَّهِ وَءَايَٰتِهِۦ وَرَسُولِهِۦ كُنتُمْ تَسْتَهْزِءُونَۖ
And if thou ask them (O Muhammad) they will say: We did but talk and jest. Say: Was it at Allah and His revelations and His messenger that ye did scoff — Pickthall
In the printed edition: Sūrat Al-Tawba begins at vol. 4, p. 74 (Tūnis 2022, 10 vols.)
The site’s Arabic edition follows Warsh ʿan Nāfiʿ; the reference text quoted here and the matcher behind the Fī Riyāḍ loci are Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim. Content is nearly identical, but verse-boundary numbering diverges in a handful of places. Each locus carries its own witness’s numbering. Page references 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.
Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.
1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 22, ¶56 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 4, p. 86 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle
وأنتم شر من الحمير، فجاء إلى رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فقص عليه فجاء جحش وأقسم بالله أنه ما قال هذاا (وَلَبِن سَأَلْتَهُمْ) عن استهزائهم بك والقرآن وهم سائرون معك إلى تبوك (لَيَقُولَيَّ) معتذرين (إِنَّمَا كُنَّا نَخُوضُ وَنَلْعَبُ) في الحديث لنقطع به ال …
Read in context →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.