Sūrat Al-Tawba · 9 : 71

Q 9:71 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

عَنِ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ إِنَّ

And the believers, men and women, are protecting friends one of another; they enjoin the right and forbid the wrong, and they establish worship and they pay the poor-due, and they obey Allah and His messenger. As for these, Allah will have mercy on them. Lo! Allah is Mighty, Wise — 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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Exegesis of the verse

Sustained interpretation of the verse as a verse — lemma, gloss, expansion.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīr

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 22 — vol. 4, p. 86 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

In this session, not yet located. Lesson 22 runs from Q 9:34–Q 9:92. Of the 59 āyāt in that span, as many as 44 are quoted where the session reaches them; this one is not, so whether he takes it up here is not established. The page given is where the lesson opens — start there and read on.

Most of Shaykh Ibrāhīm’s Qurʾānic commentary is oral. Sixty-two cassettes of Wolof exegesis covering the whole Qurʾān have never been transcribed, and this index reaches only what the written sessions quote. An absence here belongs to the index, not to the corpus.

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The verse used, not interpreted

Here the verse warrants a claim argued from other authorities. It is not the object of commentary.

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 9, ¶46 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

القلوب عامرة وسيأتي زمان تكون القلوب خرابا والمساجد عامرة بالأبدان . الملوك يتكبرون والأغنياء يبخلون والعلماء يطمعون والعبّاد يراءون والتجار يستعملون الربا. وقال الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم: أول من يحاسب يوم القيامة ثلاثة يؤتى بهم حامل لكتاب اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى، ومنفق ومجاهد في سبيل اللّٰه قد استشهد، يقول للقارئ: حملت كتابي ماذا فعلت لي؟ قال: كنت أتلوه آناء الليل وأطراف النهار، يقول: ما قصدتني بذلك، قصدتَ أن يقال فلان قارئ فقط وقد قيل، ذلك جزاؤك ليس لك عندي شيء. ويقول للغني: ماذا فعلتَ لي رزقتك كثيرا من الأموال؟ يقول: كنتُ أعطي يمينا وشمالا أتصدق لوجهك. قال:

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Lesson 9 runs Q 3:92–Q 3:175. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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.

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 9, ¶60 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 2, p. 79 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

"فَاسْتَبِقُواْ ألْخَيْرَاتِ" فسره الرسول صلى اللّه عليه وسلم بقوله: (اغتنم خمسا قبل خمس:

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Lesson 9 runs Q 3:92–Q 3:175. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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

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1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 19, ¶75 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 216 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

تلك أمة أحمد. قال: رب إني أجد في التوراة أمة يؤمنون بالكتاب الأول والآخر يقاتلون رؤوس الضلالة حتى يقاتلوا الأعور الكذاب فاجعلهم أمتي، قال: تلك أمة أحمد. قال: رب إني أجد في التوراة أمة يأكلون صدقاتهم في بطونهم وكان من قبلهم إذا أخرج صدقته بعث اللّٰه عليها نارا فأكلتها فإن لم يقبل لم تقبلها النار فاجعلها أمتي، قال: تلك أمة أحمد. قال: رب إني أجد في التوراة أمة إذا هم أحدهم سيئة لم يكتب عليه فإن عملها كتبت عليه سيئة واحدة وإذا هم أحدهم بحسنة ولم يعملها كببت له حسنة فإن عملها كتبت له عشر حسنات أمثالها إلى سبعمائة ضعف فاجعلها أمتي، قال: تلك أمة أحمد. قال: رب إني أجد في التوراة أمة هم المستجيبون والمستجاب لهم فاجعلهم أمتي، قال: تلك أمة أحمد". دلائل النبوة للبيهقي ج1 ص282 .281.

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Lesson 19 runs Q 7:88–Q 7:170. This āya falls outside it. He quotes it here inside the commentary on another verse, which is why it is not filed as exegesis of this one.

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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