تعارف امام ثعلبی اور تفسیر" الکشف والبیان عن تفسیر القرآن"

AN INTRODUCTION TO IMAM THA'LABI AND TAFSEER AL-KASHF WA-L-BAYĀN ʿAN TAFSĪR AL-QURʾĀN

Abstract

Tafseer "Al-Kashf wa-l-bayān ʿan tafsīr al-Qurʾān" is a Musnad Tafseer of the 5th century Hijra, which has recently uncovered and published. One of the features of this is that this Tafseer is source for many well-known Tafaseer; Tafseer Baghawi, Tafseer Ibn e Katheer etc.  And the Ahadiths mentioned in it are quoted by the authors, based on his own chain till Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, so this book can also be considered as a book of Hadith of the 5th century. References to this Tafseer were present in many known Tafseers, but this Tafseer existed as manuscripts or their copies and lacked the modern style of writing and printing, due to which it was not possible for the common people to use this Tafseer. But Maktaba Dar al-Tafseer, Jeddah, in 2015, under the supervision of Dr. Salah Ba Usman, Dr. Hassan Ghazali, Dr. Zaid Hamish and Dr. Amin Basha, published it in 33 volumes and made it available to the public. This paper sheds light on the biography of Imam Tha'labi and proves as an account of salient features of his splendid work of Quranic interpretation. All the qualities of his work are explained in detail, and this helps the reader to get enough knowledge about this Tafseer and its literary pattern. In this way this research adds a contribution to the efforts to bring this glorious work of Imam in front of this World.