Q 92:5 in the tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse

فَأَمَّا مَنَ

As for him who giveth and is dutiful (toward Allah) — 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-Layl begins at vol. 10, p. 188 (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 55 — vol. 10, p. 167 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

In this session, not yet located. Lesson 55 is titled by sūra rather than by āya; its bounds (Q 87:1–Q 111:5) are inferred from where the neighbouring sessions begin, so they are soft at the edges. Of the 273 āyāt in that span, as many as 101 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-textunbracketed quotation

1383 / 1964 · Arabic · Lesson 18, ¶74 · numbered by Ḥafṣ · lesson opens at vol. 3, p. 191 · the annual Ramaḍān cycle

ومقعده من الجنة، قالوا: يا رسول اللّٰه أفلا نتكل على كتابنا وندع العمل؟ قال: اعملوا فكل ميسر لما خلق له، أما من كان من أهل السعادة فييسر لعمل أهل السعادة وأما من كان من أهل الشقاء فييسر لعمل أهل الشقاوة ثم قرأ "فأما من أعطى واتقى وصدق بالحسنى" الآية) صحيح البخاري: كتاب تفسير القرآن/ باب فسنيسره للعسرى (4949)، وفي صحيح مسلم: كتاب القدر / باب كيفية خلق الآدمي في بطن أمه (4787).

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Lesson 18 runs Q 7:1–Q 7:87. 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.

Two questions: whether the attributes in ﴿a guidance for those of taqwā﴾ (Q 2:2–5) are one or distinct; and who is meant in ﴿if you perceive in them sound judgement﴾ (Q 4:6)

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السؤال الأول عن قوله تعالى: ﴿هُدًى لِّلْمُتَّقِينَ…﴾ (البقرة:2-5) هل الصفات متحدة أو متباينة؟ … السؤال الثاني: عن قوله تعالى: ﴿فَإِنْ ءَانَسْتُم مِّنْهُمْ رُشْداً فَٱدْفَعُوٓاْ إِلَيْهِمْ﴾ (النساء:6) من المراد بهم في هذه الآية من أرباب الأحوال؟

al-Fatāwā wa-l-ajwiba · undated · Arabic · §4, p. 249 · Mawsūʿat al-āthār al-nathriyya li-ṣāḥib al-fayḍa al-Tijāniyya, maḥwar 5 · compiled by Muḥammad b. al-Shaykh ʿAbd Allāh al-Tijānī · answered in writing

ذكر تعالى أربعة أشياء: التقوى، والإيمان بالغيب، وإقامة الصلاة، والإنفاق وذلك صفة الخلفاء الراشدين الأربعة. في الآية بيان فضلهم: التقوى لأبي بكر الصديق رضي الله عنه… والإيمان بالغيب لعمر الفاروق رضي الله عنه… وإقامة الصلاة لعثمان ذي النورين رضي الله عنه… والإنفاق لعلي المرتضى رضي الله عنه.

He mentioned four things: taqwā, faith by the unseen, establishing the ṣalāt, and spending. That is the description of the four rightly guided caliphs. In the verse there is a setting out of their excellence. Taqwā is for Abū Bakr al-Ṣiddīq… faith by the unseen is for ʿUmar al-Fārūq… establishing the ṣalāt is for ʿUthmān of the two lights… and spending is for ʿAlī al-Murtaḍā.

Excerpt from the answer; the full text is not published here. Translation by Amadu Kunateh. The compiler's footnotes are not included.

§4. The edition prints this reference itself.

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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