Q 33:55 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

لَّا عَلَيْهِنَّ فِےٓ وَلَآ وَلَآ وَلَآ وَلَآ وَلَا وَلَا مَا إِنَّ عَلَيٰ

It is no sin for them (thy wives) to converse freely) with their fathers, or their sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or the sons of their sisters or of their own women, or their slaves. O women! Keep your duty to Allah. Lo! Allah is ever Witness over all things — 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-Aḥzāb begins at vol. 7, p. 218 (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 40 — vol. 7, p. 195 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

In this session, not yet located. Lesson 40 is titled by sūra rather than by āya; its bounds (Q 31:22–Q 33:55) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. Of the 98 āyāt in that span, as many as 60 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.

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-text

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 41, ¶72 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 3 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

مِنْ بَعْدِمِة أَبَداً إِنَّ ذَلِكُمْ كَانَ عِندَ أللَّهِ عَظِيماً) ذنبا عظيما، اللّٰه جعل أزواج النبي صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أمهات لنا فحرم علينا تزويج واحدة منهن وما جعل اللّٰه رسول اللّٰه صلى اللّٰه عليه وسلم أبا للأمة، فلو كان أبا للأمة لما جاز له التزويج هو لأن النساء كلا بناته، ولا يجوز للأمة أن يتزوجوا ببناته هو لأن بنات النبي صرن أخوات لنا، فلهذا أثبت أن أزواجه أمهاتنا و "مَا كَانَ مُحَمَّدُّ آبَآ أَحَدٍ صِ رِجَالِكُمْ" ليس أبا لنا فيحرم عليه التزويج ويحرم على بناته أيضا التزويج، "وَلَكِر رَسُولَ اللَّهِ" يكفي (إِن تُبْدُواْ شَيْئاً آوْ تُخْبُوهُ) من نكاحهن (بَإِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ بِكُلِّ شَءٍ عَلِيماً) هذا خاطر فقط جرى على قلب طلحة بن عبيد اللّٰه فنزلت هذه الآية وبعد ذلك أعتق ستين رقبة كفارة لهذا الخاطر ومشى إلى الحج عشر مرات وحمل على الجهاد عشرة أفراس تكفيرا لهذا الخاطر 1 (لاَّ جُنَاحَ عَلَيْصَِّ مِح ابَآيِهِنَّ ) نساء النبي يجوز لهن أن يكشفن الحجاب عن آبائهن (وَلَآ …

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Lesson 41 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 33:56–Q 35:14) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. 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.

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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