فِي رِيَاضِ تَفْسِيرِ الْقُرْآنِ الْكَرِيمِ
Fī Riyāḍ Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Karīm
Ask what Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse said about any verse of the Qurʾān — and be told which session, which volume, which page, and where he quotes it.
The complete Arabic of his 56 sessions, digitally edited for the first time, indexed verse by verse alongside his other tafsīr works, fatwās, the doctrinal treatises and poetry. English translation in progress.
Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse (1900–1975) · Kaolack, Senegal · 10 volumes, 56 majālis
فهرس الآيات القرآنية
Commentary by Verse
He commented on the Qurʾān in more than the tafsīr — in his other tafsīr works, fatwās, the doctrinal treatises and poetry. Look up an āya and see every place it survives, each entry dated and marked for what he is doing with the verse.
From the opening of the tafsīr
Lesson 1 · Al-Istiʿādha, Basmala, and Sūrat al-Fātiḥa · Q. 1:1–2:5
ينبغي لكل شارع في فن أن يعرف مبادئه، حدّه، وحدُّ هذا الفن علم تعرف به معاني كلام الله، واسمه علم التفسير. والتفسير والتأويل ليسا على معنى واحد، التفسير معناه ما يفسر كلام اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى من جهة المنقول، والتأويل ما يؤيد احتمال الكلام لمعنى به من جهة العقل. لابد من النقل في التفسير، لأن القرآن يقول للرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم «لِتُبَيِّنَ لِلنَّاسِ مَا نُزِّلَ إِلَيْهِمْ»، فلهذا يعتمد في التفسير ما فسر به الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم. وإذا لم يوجد نقل عن الرسول صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم فيقبل التفسير بالمعقول، لأن اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى يقول: «قُرْءَناً عَرَبِيّاْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ»، هذه الآية أعطتنا أن نتعقل حتى نفهم معنى كلام اللّٰه تبارك وتعالى. سئل علي كرم اللّٰه وجهه:
Everyone who embarks upon a discipline should know its principles, its definition. The definition of this discipline: a science by which the meanings of the speech of Allah are known, and its name is the science of tafsīr. Tafsīr and taʾwīl are not of one meaning. Tafsīr means what explains the speech of Allah, Blessed and Exalted, from the side of what is transmitted, and taʾwīl is what supports the speech’s admitting of a meaning by it from the side of reason. Transmission is indispensable in tafsīr, because the Qurʾan says to the Messenger ﷺ: «that you may make clear to the people what was sent down to them» (Q. 16:44). For this reason, in tafsīr one relies upon that by which the Messenger ﷺ explained it. And if no transmitted report from the Messenger ﷺ is found, then interpretation by what reason grasps is accepted, because Allah, Blessed and Exalted, says: «an Arabic Qurʾan, that you may reason» (Q. 12:2). This āya has granted us [leave] to reason, so that we may understand the meaning of the speech of Allah, Blessed and Exalted. ʿAli, may Allah ennoble his face, was asked:
⟨Do you have a book with which the Messenger of Allah ﷺ singled you out, the Family of the House?⟩ He said: ⟨No, except⟩
Lesson 1 also carries Tafsīr al-Jalālayn and Rūḥ al-Bayān verse by verse.
State of the edition
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Arabic text of the tafsīr Transcribed and proofed from the ten-volume compiled edition | 56 / 56 |
Read against the printed volume Word for word, against the ten-volume Majmaʿ al-Yamāma printing | 8 / 56 |
Recorded audio Arabic and Wolof | 30 / 56 |
Tafsīr al-Jalālayn alongside English, translated for this edition | 1 / 56 |
English translation 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 in draft | 8 / 56 |
The compiler's footnotes Keyed to the passages they annotate, from the verified documents | 8 / 56 |
Full comparative apparatus Jalālayn and Rūḥ al-Bayān in Arabic, verse by verse | 1 / 56 |
The Arabic edition is complete and citable. Everything below it is in progress, and each lesson page marks which layers are present.