The Scholars have categorized the types of tafsir into Tafsir bil riwaya (tafsir through narration) and Tafsir Bil Ma’thur (Tafsir through sound reasoning)
Examples of Tafsir bil Riwaya are: Tasfir ibn Kathir or Tafsir Tabari
Examples of Rational based Tafsir (Tafsir bil Ma’thur) are by Razi or Alusi, Baydawi
The Scholars have also explained that the Qur’an Kareem can be explained through the following sequence:
1) Qur’an explained through Qur’an
2) Qur’an explained through the Prophet (sall Allahu alaihi wa sallam)
3) Qur’an explained through the sahaba
4) Qur’an explained through Tab’in
5) Qur’an explained through the Arabic language
6) Qur’an explained through Sound Reasoning
January 2, 2009 at 3:33 pm
I need examples of all of the above except the quran explained by the quran (2 for each)
i can not use the examples given in the uloom al quran book
May 27, 2009 at 12:53 pm
i need example of all of the type of tafsir
May 27, 2009 at 9:53 pm
If you look at any of the above mentioned books you will see this different kind of tafsir in action. Especially in the great works of the ruh ma’ani, al-maftih ghayb and the like