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English Tafsir

The bot is able to quote from 7 tafaseer (commentaries on the Qurʾān) translated to English for use with the -tafsir command (see the documentation). I have attempted to add a short description to each one:

  1. jalalayn - the tafsir of the "Two Jalals" - a commentary written by Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥalli and his student Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūtī. It is known for his brevity and concision. This is the default tafsir.
  2. ibnkathir - the tafsir of Ibn Kathir (d. 774 AH) entitled al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓeem, or more simply, Tafsir Ibn Kathir, is a popular commentary on the Qurʾān based on Ibn Taymiyyah's exegetical style of quoting early Muslim authorities (the salaf).
  3. tustari - the tafsir of Sahl al-Tustarī (d. 283 AH), a Persian Ṣūfī mystic.
  4. qushayri - the tafsir of Abūʾl Qāsim al-Qushayrī (d. 465 AH), entitled Laṭāʾif al-Ishārāt, ('Subtle Allusions').
  5. kashani - the tafsir of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī (d. 730–6 AH).
  6. wahidi - Asbab al-Nuzul by 'Alī ibn Ahmad al-Wāhidī (d. 468 AH), which aims to collect and systemize information concerning all the known reasons and contexts for the revelation of particular Qur'anic verses.
  7. kashf - Kashf al-asrār wa ʿuddat al-abrār by Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī, about whom little is known. It is the longest Sunni commentary in the Persian language.

Arabic Tafsir

Similarly, the bot is able to quote from 37 Arabic tafaseer for use with the -atafsir command. They are sourced from tafsir.app, and I have attempted to add a short description to each one:

  1. ibnkathir - تفسير القرآن العظيم — ابن كثير (٧٧٤ هـ) The tafsir of Ibn Kathir (d. 774 AH) entitled al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓeem.

  2. tabari - جامع البيان — ابن جرير الطبري (٣١٠ هـ) The tafsir of Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī (d. 224 AH) entitled Jāmiʿ al-bayān ʿan taʾwīl āy al-Qurʾān, or more simply, Tafsir al-Ṭabarī, one of the most celebrated tafaseer and one of the earliest to survive in full.

  3. jalalayn - تفسير الجلالين — المحلّي والسيوطي (٨٦٤، ٩١١ هـ) The tafsir of the "Two Jalals" - a commentary written by Jalāl ad-Dīn al-Maḥalli and his student Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūtī.'

  4. ibnalqayyim - تفسير ابن قيّم الجوزيّة — ابن القيم (٧٥١ هـ) Commentary on select verses by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751 AH), a Ḥanbalī jurist and theologian who was the principal student of Ibn Taymiyyah.

  5. thalabi - الكشف والبيان — الثعلبي (٤٢٧ هـ) The tafsir of Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Thaʿlabī (d. 427 AH), entitled al-Kashf wa-l-bayān ʿan tafsīr al-Qurʾān.

  6. baghawi - معالم التنزيل — البغوي (٥١٦ هـ) The tafsir of Husayn b. Mas'ūd al-Baghawī (d. 516 AH) entitled Ma‘ālim al-Tanzīl. It is an abridgement (mukhtasar) of al-Thalabi's tafsir.

  7. qurtubi - الجامع لأحكام القرآن — القرطبي (٦٧١ هـ) The tafsir of Abu Abdullāh al-Qurṭubī (d. 671 AH) entitled al-Jami li-Akham al-Qurʾān wa mubayyin li ma taddamanahu min al-Sunnah wa ayi al-Furqān. It has a particular emphasis on legal judgements derived from verses of the Qurʾān.

  8. baydawi - أنوار التنزيل — البيضاوي (٦٨٥ هـ) The tafsir of Nasir al-Din al-Baydawi (d. 685 AH), entitled Anwar al-Tanzīl wa-Asrar al-Ta'wīl, is one of the most popular classical commentaries.

  9. mawardi - the tafsir of al-Mawardi (d. 448 AH) entitled al-Nukat wal 'Uyūn.

  10. suyuti - الدر المنثور — جلال الدين السيوطي (٩١١ هـ) Dur al-Manthur, the tafsir of the aforementioned Jalāl ad-Dīn as-Suyūtī.

  11. nasafi - مدارك التنزيل — النسفي (٧١٠ هـ) The tafsir of Abū al-Barakat ʿAbd Allāh b. Aḥmad al-Nasafī (d. 710 AH) is an early abridgement of the combined works of al-Baydawi and al-Zamakhshari, with an emphasis on defending the Ḥanafī school of jurisprudence (maddhab).

  12. samarqandi - بحر العلوم — السمرقندي (٣٧٣ هـ) The tafsir of the Hanafite jurist Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī (d. 373 AH).

  13. shawkani - فتح القدير — الشوكاني (١٢٥٠ هـ) The tafsir of famous Yemenite scholar and revivalist Muḥammad ash-Shawkānī (d. 1250 AH), entitled Fath al-Qadīr

  14. zamakhshari - الكشاف — الزمخشري (٥٣٨ هـ) The tafsir of Abū al-Qāsim Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī (d. 538 AH), known for its extensive linguistic analysis.

  15. saadi - تيسير الكريم الرحمن — السعدي (١٣٧٦ هـ) The tafsir of the prolific Salafī scholar ʿAbd ar-Raḥman b. Nasir as-Sa'di (d. 1376 AH).

  16. razi - مفاتيح الغيب — فخر الدين الرازي (٦٠٦ هـ) An abridged edition of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606 AH)'s gargantuan 32-volume Tafsīr al-Kabīr.

  17. ibnaljawzi - زاد المسير — ابن الجوزي (٥٩٧ هـ) The tafsir of Ibn al-Jawzī (d. 597 AH) entitled Zād al-Masīr fi 'ilm at-Tafsīr.

  18. ibnjuzayy - التسهيل لعلوم التنزيل — ابن جُزَيّ (٧٤١ هـ) The tafsir of Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad b. Juzayy al-Gharnāṭī (d. 741 AH).

  19. baqai- نظم الدرر — البقاعي (٨٨٥ هـ) The tafsir of Burhanuddin Ibrāhīm b. ʿUmar al-Biqa'i (d. 855 AH) entitled Nazm al-Durār fi Tanasub.

  20. abuhayyan - البحر المحيط — أبو حيان (٧٤٥ هـ) The tafsir of the Andalusian grammarian Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī (d. 745) entitled al-Bahr al-Muhit. It focuses on grammatical and linguistical analysis, including the various readings of the Qurʾān (qirā’āt), including non-canonical ones.

  21. ibnatiyah - المحرر الوجيز — ابن عطية (٥٤٦ هـ) The tafsir of Ibn ‘Atiyyah (d. 541 AH), entitled al-Muharrar al-Wajīz fī Tafsīr al-Kitāb al-‘Azīz. The author drew heavily from the narrations found in books of narration-based tafsir, especially from al-Ṭabarī's tafsir.

  22. ibnashur - التحرير والتنوير — ابن عاشور (١٣٩٣ هـ) The tafsir of Muhammad al-Ṭāhir b. ʿĀshūr (d. 1394 AH) entitled Tafsir Al-Tahrir wa-al-Tanwir is widely regarded as one of the best tafaseer authored in the modern era.

  23. muyassar - الميسر — مجمع الملك فهد A brief tafsir authored by scholars under the direction of Sālih b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz Al ash-Sheikh, then the Minister of Islamic Affairs of Saudi Arabia.

  24. ibnuthaymeen - تفسير القرآن الكريم — ابن عثيمين (١٤٢١ هـ) The tafsir of the famous Saudi scholar Muhammad b. al-ʿUthaymīn (d. 1421 AH).

  25. makki - الهداية إلى بلوغ النهاية — مكي بن أبي طالب (٤٣٧ هـ) The tafsir of Makki b. Abu Talib (d. 437 AH).

  26. abualsuod - إرشاد العقل السليم — أبو السعود (٩٨٢ هـ) The tafsir of Ebussuûd Efendi, an Ottoman Hanafite scholar.

  27. ibnabihatim - تفسير القرآن العظيم مسندًا — ابن أبي حاتم الرازي (٣٢٧ هـ) The tafsir of Ibn Abī Hatim al-Razī (d. 327 AH), considered to be a prime example of a narration-based tafsir.

  28. thaalabi - الجواهر الحسان — الثعالبي (٨٧٥ هـ) The tafsir of Abū Zayd al-Thaʿālibī (d. 876 AH).

  29. zamanain - تفسير القرآن العزيز — ابن أبي زمنين (٣٩٩ هـ) The tafsir of Ibn Abī Zamanayn (d. 399 AH), an Andalusian Mālikī jurist and poet.

  30. iji - جامع البيان — الإيجي (٩٠٥ هـ) The tafsir of the Persian scholar Muhammad b. Abd al-Rahman al-Iji (d. 905 AH).

  31. qasimi - محاسن التأويل — القاسمي (١٣٣٢ هـ) The tafsir of Jamal al-Dīn al-Qasimi (d. 1332 AH), an Ottoman Syrian scholar and modernist.

  32. fathalbayan - فتح البيان — صديق حسن خان (١٣٠٧ هـ) The tafsir of Siddīq Ḥasan Khan (d. 1307 AH), an Indian scholar credited with founding the Ahl-i Hadith movement, entitled Fatḥ al-Bayān

  33. alusi - روح المعاني — الآلوسي (١٢٧٠ هـ) The tafsir of Maḥmūd al-Ālūsī (d. 1270 AH), a prolific Ottoman Iraqi scholar and Hanafite jurist. It is entitled Rūh al-Ma'ānī.

  34. jazaeri - أيسر التفاسير — أبو بكر الجزائري (١٤٣٩ هـ) The tafsir of Abū Bakr al-Jazaeri (d. 1439 AH).

  35. mukhtasar - المختصر — مركز تفسير A brief tafsir aimed at laymen written and published by the Tafsir Center for Qur'ānic Studies, attempting to avoid errors made in previous tafaseer.

  36. samaani - تفسير القرآن — السمعاني (٤٨٩ هـ) The tafsir of Abū al-Muzaffar al-Sam’ani (d. 489 AH).

  37. wahidi - الوجيز — الواحدي (٤٦٨ هـ) The tafsir of Abū al-Hasan b. Ahmad al-Wahidi al-Nisapuri (d. 468 AH), a Persian Shafi'ite jurist.