Q 38:7 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

مَا بِهَٰذَا فِے إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا

We have not heard of this in later religion. This is naught but an invention — 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 Ṣād begins at vol. 8, p. 113 (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 43, ¶26 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

(إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَشَےْءࣱ يُرَادُ مَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَٰذَا فِے اِ۬لْمِلَّةِ اِ۬لَاخِرَةِ إِنْ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا اَ۪خْتِلَٰقٌ)) كذب. سبب نرول هذه الآية أنه اجتمع رؤساء قريش أبو جهل بن هشام، عتبة والوليد وشيبة وأبو البختري وأبي بن خلف والوليد بن المغيرة وتشاوروا فيما بينهم قالوا: يقبح بنا أن يهلك أبو طالب فنقتل محمدا بعده، ونحن لا نصبر على ما يقول محمد، يسب آلهتنا ويسفه عقولنا وعقول آبائنا، نجتمع إلى أبي طالب فيصالح بيننا وبين محمد، قالوا هذا رأي حسن فأتوا إلى أبي طالب قالوا له: أنت شيخنا وأنت الآن مشرف على الموت ونخاف أن تموت فنقتل محمدا بعدك فتتحدث العرب أننا تركنا محمدا حتى مات أبوه فقتلناه، ونحن لا نصبر على ما يقول محمد، أصلح بيننا قبل موتك، الرجل ما حمله على هذا الذي يدعو الناس إليه إلا حب الرئاسة والمملكة فقط، نملكه فينا يكون هو ملكنا ويترك هذا، إن كان يحب المال نجمع أموالنا كلا وندفعها له حتى يكون أغنى الناس، إن أحب شيئا من النساء نجمع له النساء الجميلات كلا ويترك هذا. أرسل أبو طالب إلى …

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمtafsīrunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 43, ¶27 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 8, p. 105 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

فقالوا: إلها واحدا "مَا سَمِعْنَا بِهَذَا فِي الْمِلَّةِ الآخِرَةِ إِنْ هَذَآ إِلاَّ إَخْتِلَقُ" قال: فنزل فيهم القرآن "ض

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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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