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Tafsir List

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The bot is able to quote from 14 translated tafaseer (commentaries on the Qurʾān) for use with the -tafsir command (see the documentation). I have attempted to add a short description to each one:

English

  1. maarifulquran (default) - the tafsir of the Pakistani scholar Muhammad Shafi Deobandi (d. 1976 CE).
  2. mukhtasar - I was unable to find details on this (presumably translated) tafsir.
  3. 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.
  4. 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).
  5. tustari - the tafsir of Sahl al-Tustarī (d. 283 AH), a Persian Ṣūfī mystic.
  6. qushayri - the tafsir of Abūʾl Qāsim al-Qushayrī (d. 465 AH), entitled Laṭāʾif al-Ishārāt, ('Subtle Allusions').
  7. kashani - the tafsir of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī (d. 730–6 AH).
  8. 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.
  9. 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.

Russian

  1. saadi - the tafsir of ʿAbd ar-Raḥman b. Nasir as-Sa'di (d. 1376 AH), translated into Russian.

Urdu

  1. ibnkathir.ur - Urdu translation of Ibn Kathir's tafsir.
  2. israr - the tafsir of Dr Israr Ahmad (d. 2010 CE) entitled Bayan-ul-Quran.

Bengali

  1. ibnkathir.bn - Bengali translation of Ibn Kathir's tafsir.
  2. ahsanul- a Bengali-language tafsir authored by a certain Salahuddin Yusuf.

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.

  38. faraa - معاني القرآن للفراء — أبو زكريا الفراء (٢٠٧ هـ)

  39. jassas - أحكام القرآن للجصاص — الجصاص (٣٧٠ هـ)

  40. zajjaj - معاني الزجاج — الزجاج (٣١١ هـ)

  41. ibnalarabi - أحكام القرآن لابن العربي — ابن العربي (٥٤٣ هـ)

  42. adwaa - أضواء البيان — محمد الأمين الشنقيطي (١٣٩٤ هـ)

  43. tadabbur - تدبر وعمل — شركة الخبرات الذكية

  44. mawsoah - القراءات — الموسوعة القرآنية — إبراهيم الأبياري (١٤١٤ هـ)

  45. naskh - ناسخ القرآن ومنسوخه لمكي — مكي بن أبي طالب (٤٣٧ هـ)

  46. iraab - الإعراب الميسر — شركة الدار العربية

  47. jadwal - الجدول في إعراب القرآن — محمود الصافي (١٣٧٦ هـ)

  48. lubab - اللباب في علوم الكتاب — ابن عادل (٨٨٠ هـ)

  49. aldur - الدر المصون للسمين الحلبي — السمين الحلبي (٧٥٦ هـ)

  50. mushkil-iraab - مجتبى مشكل إعراب القرآن — أحمد بن محمد الخراط

  51. iraab-aldarweesh - إعراب القرآن للدرويش — محيي الدين درويش (١٤٠٣ هـ)

  52. majaz - مجاز القرآن لمعمر بن المثنى — أبو عبيدة معمر بن المثنى (٢٠٩ هـ)

  53. asbab - أسباب النزول للواحدي — الواحدي (٤٦٨ هـ)

  54. altibyan - غريب القرآن لابن الهائم — ابن الهائم (٨١٥ هـ)

  55. ibnqutaybah - غريب القرآن لابن قتيبة — ابن قتيبة (٢٧٦ هـ)

  56. siraaj - غريب القرآن للخضيري — محمد بن عبد العزيز الخضيري

  57. mafateeh - مفاتيح الأغاني في القراءات — أبو العلاء الكرماني (بعد ٥٦٣ هـ)

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