List of tafsir works

The following is a list of tafsir works. Tafsir is a body of commentary and explication, aimed at explaining the meanings of the Qur'an, the central religious text of Islam. Tafsir can broadly be categorized by its affiliated Islamic schools and branches and the era it was published, classic or modern. Modern tafsirs listed here are the work of later than the 20th century.

Sunni

The following Tafsir are compiled by Sunni Muslim scholars who follow the Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanbali jurisprudence and the Maturidi, Ash'ari and Athari creed.

Classic Arabic

Partial and Unfinished Tafseer

  • There are at least 911 compilations of Ahadeeth and numerous other books containing the explanations and commentaries of those compilations of Ahadeeth books and almost all the compilations contain a book on Qur’aanic Tafseer.
  • Ma'aanee Al-Qur'aanu-l-Kareem (unfinished) by Abu Jaʿfar an-Nahhas (d. 338 AH/949 CE) - It contains the Tafseer from Surah A;-Faatihah to Surah Al-Fath (001-048). It has been edited and annotated by Shaikh Muhammad 'Ali As-Saawboonee Al-Hanafi.
  • Al-Bustaanu fee I'raawbi Mushkilaati-l-Qur'aan (unfinished) by Ahmad Ibn Ahnaf Abee Bakr Al-Yamanee Ibn 'Umar Al-Hanbali (717 AH).
  • Rawaa'i'u-t-Tafseer by Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbali (795 AH).
  • Tafseer Ibn 'Arawfah (unfinished) by the jurist Aboo 'Abbdullaah Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn Muhammad Ibn 'Arawfah Al-Warghawmee Al-Maliki Al-Ash'ari (d. 800/803 AH/ 1400 CE)
  • Tafseer Ibn Kamaal Baashaa (unfinished) by Shamsu-d-Deen Ahmad Ibn Sulaymaan Ibn Kemal Pasha Ar-Roomi (d. 940 AH/1536 CE)
  • At-Tafseeraawtu-l-Ahmadiyyah fee Bayaani-l-Aayaati-sh-Shar'iyyah by Ahmad Ibn Abee Sa'eed Ibn 'Abdullah Ibn 'Abdu-R-Rawzzaaq Ibn Khaawsawh As-Siddiqi Al-Makki Muhajir Al-Abethwi Al-Hindi Al-Hanafi (d. 1130 AH / 1718 CE). This is the Hanafi Tafseer of only those Aayaat which are concerned with matters of Fiqh. It MUST NEVER be confused with any of the Tafseers of the Ahmadi sect that came into existence during the British Raj in India in 1889 CE.
  • Mushkilaatu-l-Qur’aan by Sayyid Muhammad Anwar Shah Kashmiri, edited with references and one of the introductions by Mawlana Ahmad Bijnuri, and another introduction by the author's favourite student Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Yoosuf Binnori. The book predominantly in Arabic but passages in Persian also appear throughout the work. The main objective for undertaking to write this work was to interpret only those verses of the Qur’an which are generally considered to be difficult to understand. A special feature of this particular work is that the author has, in addition, set aside 190 verses that, in his opinion, required further discussion and repeated consideration. Published posthumously in Maligaon, Surat, Gujrat, India, by Majlis al- 'Ilmi in 1974.

Ambiguous

  1. Asbaabu Nuzzoli-l-Qur’aan (The Causes of the Revelation of the Qur’aan)
  2. Al-Wajeez fee Tafseeru-l-Kitaabi-l-'Azeez (1/2 Volumes)
  3. Al-Waseet fee Tafseeru-l-Qur’aanu-mm-Majeedd (4 Volumes)
  4. Al-Baseet (16/24 Volumes)
  • Al-Bahr al-Madid (The Immense Ocean) by Ahmad ibn 'Ajiba (d. 1224/1809).
  • Fat'hu-l-Qawdeer by Muhammad ash-Shawkani.
  • Tafsir al-Manar by Rashid Rida (1865—1935). 12 volumes of tafsir written in concise and straightforward languages that is accessible to both mufassir and non-mufassir alike.[16] It served as his avenue for propagating his thoughts on Islamic Modernism.[17]
  • Fi Zilal al-Quran ('In the Shade of the Quran') by Sayyid Qutb (1906—1966). Many praise it as a modern commentary, but at the same time, many critics including some Sunni scholars say that Qutb had little Islamic knowledge, and wrote his commentary according to his own opinion. It has also been attacked for not following the style of classical commentaries.
  • Risale-i Nur by Said Nursî (1878—1960) written mainly in Turkish, is a large work, with four main volumes. It consists of extensive exegesis of certain verses and explanation of the fundamentals of how to approach the Qur’an. It especially explains the verses that 21st century people need most. In other words, it studies the verses about the six articles of belief of Islam such as believing in God and the day of judgment. It also gives logical answers to the questions asked by Atheists. This work is written in a more accessible style to the general public and is translated into 52 languages.[18][19][20]

Persian

Translations

Original

  • Mawaahibb 'Alaih (Tafseeru-l-Husainee): by Kamaalu-d-Deen Muhammad Al-Kaashifee
  • Fat-hur Rahman: an 18th-century translation with Tafseer in Persian by Shah Waliullah Dehlawi
  • Tafsir-e Azizi: an 18th-century Tafseer in Persian by Al-Muhaddith Shah Abdul Aziz Dihlawi, son of Shah Waliullah Dehlawi. (A large part of this Tafseer was lost in 1847 CE along with the commentary on Sunan Abu Dawood.)
  • Mushkilaatu-l-Qur’aan by Sayyid Muhammad Anwar Shah Kashmiri, edited with references and one of the introductions by Mawlana Ahmad Bijnuri, and another introduction by the author's favourite student Mawlana Sayyid Muhammad Yoosuf Binnori. This partial commentary is predominantly in Arabic but passages in the Persian language also appears throughout the work. The main objective for undertaking to write this work was to interpret only those verses of the Holy Qur’an which are generally considered to be difficult to understand. A special feature of this particular work is that the author has, in addition, set aside 190 verses that, in his opinion, required further discussion and repeated consideration. Published posthumously in Maligaon, Surat, Gujrat, India, by Majlis al- 'Ilmi in 1974.

Kurdish

Urdu

Translations

Original


Partial and Unfinished Tafseer

Ambiguous

  • Fee Zilaal al-Qur'an (Translation of Fi Zilal al-Qur'an) by Masihuzzaman Falahi Nadvi, Lar, Deoria Uttar Pradesh

Bengali

Original

  • Tafseer-e-Haqqani (Haqqani Tafsir (হক্কানী তাফসীর);[23]) by Mawlana Shamsul Haque Faridpuri (completed but not fully published yet) - only the first and last Juz' were published but the author completed the manuscript of the Tafseer in approximately 16000 pages and urged his students to publish it but no one has taken up the task of the continuation of the publication yet).
  • Nooru-l-Qur'aan by Mawlana Muhammad Ameenu-l-Islaam (30 volumes) (1981-1998) - the first complete Tafseer of the Holy Qur'aan written fully in Bangla but the author quotes from Tanwir al-Miqbas too, which the readers must avoid.
  • Tafseerul Quran by Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib in Bangla Language.

Translations

English

Translations

Original

Sindhi

Shia

Classic

Ambiguous

Partial and Unfinished Tafseer

Sufi (mystical) or Irfani or Philosophical

Modern

Translations

Persian

Sufi or Irfani or Philosophical

English

  • Tafsir al-Mizan by Allameh Muhammad Husayn Tabatabaei (1904 – 1981 CE). (was translated from Arabic to English by sayyid sa'id akhtar rizvi).
  • The Holy Qur'an: Text, Translation and Commentary (First Edition: 4 April 1934, Second Edition: 1937, and Third Edition: 1938)' by the anglophile British-Indian Dawoodi Bohra Abdullah Yusuf Ali (14 April 1872[28] – 10 December 1953) - 'Ali undertook this work at a time when the Qur’an had yet never been properly presented in English from a Shia perspective and only non-Muslim translations were available, which were sometimes overly unsympathetic. It has become one of the most widely used English editions of the Qur’an due to the quality of the translation and its use of extensive footnotes.[29] In the 1980s, the book has been appropriated by the Saudi religious establishment and edited to better fit the country's Wahhabi/Salafist perspective. This latter version is today widely distributed as the «Amana Edition».
  • An Enlightening Commentary into the Light of the Holy Qur'an by Ayatullah Sayyid Kamal Faqih Imani (was translated from Persian to English by Sayyid Abbas Sadr-'ameli).
  • Tafsir Nemooneh by Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi (1927 CE – Present) (was translated from Persian to English).

Urdu

Other schools and branches

Muʿtazila

Modern Tafsīrs

  • Tafsir e Ashrafi[30] by Shaykh al-Islām Syed Mohammed Madni Ashraf, he has written a 10 volume Tafsir and its received acclaim by all leading scholars to be the best Urdu Tafsir of 20th century. It has been specifically been praised for being easy to understand, simple yet effective at the same time.
  • Tafhim-ul-Quran by Abul A'la Maududi; 06 volumes of tafsir written in 30 years. Available online.[31]
  • A Thematic Commentary on the Qur’an by Mohammed al-Ghazali (1917—1996), a contemporary Egyptian scholar not to be confused with Imam al-Ghazali. This commentary tries to explore the themes that weave through the entire Qur’an as well as the main theme of each chapter.
  • Tafsir Ash-Shaarawi by Muhammad Metwali Alsharawi (1911—1998), a famous Egyptian scholar.
  • Tafsir al-Tahrir wa'l-Tanwir (1984) by Muhammad al-Tahir ibn Ashur. Notable of its emphasis on the rhetorical aspect of the Qur’an.
  • Al-tafser al-waset by Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy (28 October 1928 — 10 March 2010), Grand Imam of Al-Azhar.
  • Tafseer Fi Zilal Al Quran (In the Shade of the Quran) by Sayyid Qutb
  • Tafsir Ishraq Al Ma'ani[32] (1997-2007) by Syed Iqbal Zaheer. In eight volumes, summarizes the professional exegesis of the most prominent writings of muslim scholars--from Tabari ( Tafsir at-Tabari ) to Syed Qutb ( In the Shade of the Quran)--from a Salafi perspective. Arguably the most recently published modern Tafsir to date. The author is the editor of "Young Muslim Digest". This tafsir is as recent as it is very hard to purchase. The following link[33] is the best place to purchase the full tafsir.
  • Kanzur Rahman Fi Asraril Quran compiled by Hafiz Nawab Ali Chatgami from the Tafsir-E-Naqeeb-Ul-Ashraf.

Classic Arabic

  • Al-Bahru-l-Madeed fee Tafseeru-l-Qur’aanu-mm-Majeed ('The Immense Ocean') by Ahmad ibn Ajiba (1747—1809 CE), generally known as Tafsir ibn Ajibah — an 6/8 volume work by a Moroccan Sheikh of the Darqarwi branch of the Shadhili Order of Sufism.
  • Tanwir al-Miqbas («Tafsir Ibn Abbas») falsely attributed to Abd Allah ibn Abbas (d. 68/687)
  • Tafsir al Kabir («The Great Interpretation») by Muqatil ibn Sulayman (80-150AH). The first «full tafsir» attributed to Muqatil ibn Sulayman ibn Bashir al Balkhi.
  • Ma’ani al-Qur’an («The Meaning of The Qur’an») by Yahya ibn Ziyad al-Farra (207AH).
  • Nukat al-Qur’an al-Dallah ala al-Bayan by Al-Qassab (d. 360AH/970CE)[34][35] a commentary primarily from the viewpoint of applied Islamic law.

Bengali

  • Tafsir Ibn Kathir (তাফসিরে ইবনে কাছীর) translated by Dr. Mujeebur-Rahman
  • Tafseer-Ainee (তাফসিরে আইনী) 1-15 Parah/Juz' (Volume-I & II) Explained By Professor Maulana Hafez Shaikh Ainul Bari Aliavee. Authentic tafseer which is written in Bengali (Not completed yet). Published by Sufia Prakashani, Kolkata (INDIA). ISBN 978-81-941079-1-0 (volume-I) & ISBN 978-81-941079-2-7 (Volume-II).
  • Tafseerul Quran (তাফসীরুল কুরআন) by Dr. Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib
  • Tafsir Zakaria (তাফসিরে জাকারিয়া) by Dr. Abubakar Muhammad Zakaria. It is first original, complete and authentic tafsir which written in Bengali. Available online.[36]
  • Tafheemul Quran ( তাফহিমুল কুরআন) by Abul A'la Maududi. Translated from Urdu by Abdul Mannan Talib. Available online.[37]
  • Tafsirul Quran (তাফসিরুল কুরআন) by Delwar Hossain Sayeedi

English

Malay

Indonesian

Persian

  • Kashf al-Asrar wa 'Iddat al-Abrar: an 11th-century tafsir by a student of Abdullah al-Ansari

Urdu

Turkish

See also

Notes

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