Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Azim (Arabic: تفسير القرءان العظيم‎, romanized: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm), commonly known as Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Arabic: تفسير ابن كثير, romanized: Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr), is the Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) by Ibn Kathir. It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science of interpretation of the Quran.^[1]

Tafsir Ibn Kathir

A page from an Arabic manuscript of Tafsir Ibn Kathir
Author	Ibn Kathir
Language	Arabic
Genre	Tafsir
Publication place	Mamluk Sultanate
Published in English	2006

It also includes jurisprudential rulings, and takes care of the hadiths and is famous for being almost devoid of Israʼiliyyat.^[1] It is the most followed tafsir by Salafists.^[2]

Background

Ibn Kathir did not specify the date of his beginning in commentary, nor the date of its completion, but some deduce the era in which he composed it based on a number of evidence; Of which

• That he composed more than half of the exegesis in the life of his sheikh al-Mazzi (died 742 AH), based on the fact that he mentioned when interpreting Surat al-Anbiya his sheikh al-Mazzi and prayed for him for a long life.
• Abdullah Al-Zayla’i (died 762 AH) quoted him in his book Takhreej Ahadith al-Kashshaf, which indicates that it was spread before the year 762 AH.
• It is likely that he finished his exegesis on Friday, 10 Jumada al-Thani 759 AH, when it came in the Meccan version, which is considered the oldest copy.

The status of the exegesis and opinions of scholars

• Al-Suyuti said: “He (i.e. Ibn Katheer) has an exegesis that was not composed according to his style.”
• Muhammad bin Ali Al-Shawkani said: “He has the famous exegesis, and it is in volumes, and it was collected in Va’i and transmitted the schools of thought, stories and traditions, and spoke the best and most authentic speech, and it is one of the best exegeses.
• Ahmed Muhammad Shakir said: “After that, the exegesis of Al-Hafiz Ibn Kathir is the best of the exegeses that we have seen, and the best and most accurate after the exegesis of the Imam of the commentators Abi Jaafar Al-Tabari.”
• Muhammad bin Jaafar al-Kitani said: “It is loaded with hadiths and narrations with the chains of transmission of their narrators, while discussing them with authenticity and weakness.”
• Abd al-Aziz bin Baz said: ““The exegesis of Ibn Katheer is a great exegesis, an exegesis of the Salaf according to the methodology of Ahl al-Sunnah wal-Jama’ah, and the hadiths are taken care of, in collecting their transmissions, as well as authentication and attribution, I know of no equal to it.”^[3]

Description

By Darussalam Publications

According Darussalam Publications, this tafsir divided in 10 volume with 30 parts. Each volume is 9x6" Hardback and has around 650 pages. those are below.^[4]

• Volume 1: Parts 1 and 2(Surat Al-Fatihah to Verse 252 of Surat Al-Baqarah)
• Volume 2: Parts 3, 4 & 5 (Surah Al-Baqarah, V. 253 to Surat An-Nisa, V. 147)
• Volume 3: Parts 6, 7 & 8 (Surat An-Nisa, V. 148 to the end of Surat Al-An'am)
• Volume 4: ~ Parts 8 to 11 (Surat Al-A'raf to the end of Surah Yunus)
• Volume 5: ~Parts 11 to 15 (Surah Hud to Surat Al-Isra' Verse 38)
• Volume 6: ~Parts 15 to 18 (Surat Al-Isra', Verse 39 to the end of Surat Al-Mu'minun)
• Volume 7: ~Parts 18 to 22 (Surat An-Nur to Surat Al-Ahzab, Verse 50)
• Volume 8: ~Parts 22 to 25 (Surat Al-Ahzab Verse 51 to Surat Ad-Dukhan)
• Volume 9: ~Parts 25 to 28 (Surat Al-Jathiyah to Surat Al-Munafiqun)
• Volume 10: ~Parts 28 to 30 (Surat At-Taghabun to end of the Quran)

Edition

Edition History

Year	Lan	Translator	Publication	Type
2000	Eng	Ṣafī al-Raḥmān Mubārakfūri	Darussalam,Riyadh	Print Book
2000	Eng	Ṣafī al-Raḥmān Mubārakfūri	Darussalam,Riyadh	eBook
2000	Arabic	Ṣafī al-Raḥmān Mubārakfūri	Darussalam,Riyadh	Print Book
2009	Urdu			Print Book
2010	Kurdish	Ali Haji Abdullah Presi	Nawandi Roshnber, Sulaymaniyah	Print Book
2019	Telugu			Print Book

References

1. Zayd, Kareem Rosshandler, Abbas Ahsan, Abu; Rashid, Yasien Mohamed, Kayla Renée Wheeler, Hussein; Mitiche, Besheer Mohamed, Amaarah DeCuir, Ahmed Z.; Rustom, Alden Young, Nazar Ul Islam Wani, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Mohammed (1 April 2019). American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 36-2: Spring 2019. International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). p. 3. Retrieved 17 December 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Hashas, Mohammed (12 March 2021). Pluralism in Islamic Contexts - Ethics, Politics and Modern Challenges. Springer Nature. p. 84. ISBN 978-3-030-66089-5. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
3. "أفضلية تفسير ابن كثير على تفسير ابن الجوزي". binbaz.org.sa.
4. "Tafsir Ibn Kathir - ENGLISH (10 Volumes) - Dar-us-Salam Publications". dar-us-salam.com. Retrieved 2020-08-10.