Q 70:4 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

إِلَيْهِ فِے

(Whereby) the angels and the Spirit ascend unto Him in a Day whereof the span is fifty thousand years — 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-Maʿārij begins at vol. 10, p. 86 (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 52, ¶128 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 52 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

( بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ) قال النضر بن الحارث كما تقدم في سورة الأنفال: "اللهم إن كان هذا هو الحق من عندك فأمطر علينا حجارة من السماء" ما أشد حماقته "إِن كَانَ هَٰذَا هُوَ الْحَقَّ مِنْ عِنْدِكَ" كان حقه أن يقول نؤمن به ولكن إن كان هذا هو الحق فليهلكهم اللّٰه سَالَ سَائِلْ) دعا داع (بِعَذَابٍ وَافِع لِلْكِعِرِينَ) طلبوا من اللّه العذاب (لَيْسَ لَهُو دَابِعٌ) عذاب لا يدفعه أي دافع مِ اللَّهِ ذِى الْمَعَارِجُ) مصاعد الملائكة وهي السماوات (تَعْرُجُ الْمَلَّئِكَةُ وَالرّوحُ) جبريل (إِلَيْهِ) إلى مهبط أمره من السماء ( يَوْمِ) هو يوم القيامة (كَارَ مِفْدَارُهُو خَمْسِيرَ أَلْفَ سَنَةُ بالنسبة إلى الكافر لما يلقى فيه من الشدائد، وأما المؤمن فيكون أخف عليه من صلاة مكتوبة يصليها في الدنيا كما جاء في الحديث 1 يوم القيامة ليس يوما من الأيام فقط التي تنالكم بل آلاف من الأعوام هو يوم واحد مقداره خمسون ألف سنة ما أطول هذا اليوم، خمسون ألف سنة يوم واحد

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

في رياض التفسير للقرآن الكريمproof-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 54, ¶103 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 10, p. 129 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ما علمك هذا المحل لسوء حاله (كِتَبٌ مَرْقُومٌ) مختوم (وَيْلࣱ يَوْمَئِذࣲ لِّلْمُكَذِّبِينَ اَ۬لذِينَ يُكَذِّبُونَ بِيَوْمِ اِ۬لدِّينِۖ) الجزاء (وَمَا يُكَذِّبُ بِهِۦٓ إِلَّا كُلُّ مُعْتَدٍ) متجاوز الحد (اثِيمِ)

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Lesson 54 is titled by sūra rather than by āya, and its bounds (Q 78:1–Q 86:17) 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.

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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