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SHīʻī TAFĀSĪR
Tafsīr Author Demise Style Language Size Notes
Tanwīr al-Miqbās min Tafsīr b. ʿAbbās Ibn ʿAbbās 687 AD Traditional Arabic 1 Tafsīr compiled by Muḥammad b. Yʿaqūb Fayrūzʼābʼādī
Ṣaḥīfah ʿAli b. Abi Ṭalḥah ʿan Ibn ʿAbbās fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-Karīm Ibn ʿAbbās 687 AD Traditional Arabic 1 Tafsīr compiled by Rāshid ʿAbd al-Munʿim al-Rajjāl
Gharīb al-Qurʼān Fī Shiʿr al-ʿArab Ibn ʿAbbās 687 AD Q & A and Poetic Arabic 1 Questions asked by Nāfiʿ b. Azraq and answered in Arabic poetry
Tafsīr al-Qumī ʿAli b. Ibrāhīm al-Qumī 4th Century Traditional Arabic 2 Authenticity debated. Book is combined with Tafsīr of Abū al-Jārūd
Tafsīr Furāt al-Kūfī Abū al-Qāsim Furāt b. Ibrāhīm Kūfī 4th Century Traditional Arabic 1 Has 775 narations – about 530 verses explained
Tafsīr al-ʿAyyāshī Muḥammad b. Mas’ūd Samarqandī 320 AH Traditional Arabic 2
Tafsīr al-Nuʿmānī Abū ʿAbdullāh Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. Jʿafar 360 AH Traditional Arabic 1 Book is quoted at the beginning of Biḥār al-Anwār Volume 90
Tafsīr al-Imām al-ʿAskarī Muḥammad b. Qāsim Astarʼābʼādī 350 AH Traditional Arabic 1 Until 283rd verse of Sūrah al-Baqarah – authenticity debated
Ḥaqāʼiq al-Taʼwīl fī Mutashābih al-Tanzīl Sayyid Raḍī 406 AH Ijtihādī – theological & literary Arabic 1 Author of Nahj al-Balāghah
Tafsīr Shaykh al-Mufīd Shaykh Mufīd 413 AH Ijtihādī Arabic Compiled by Sayyid Muḥammad ʿAlī Ayāzī
Amālī of Sayyid Murtaḍa Sayyid Murtaḍa 436 AH Theological Arabic 1 79 sections in the book
Al-Tibyān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān Shaykh Ṭūsī 468 AH Ijtihādī – Theological Arabic 10
Ḥaqāʼiq al-Tafsīr Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Sulamī 412 AH Traditional – Mystical Arabic 4 He was a Sufi from Nīshāpūr
Majmaʿ al-Bayān Abū ʿAli Faḍl b. Ḥasan Ṭabarsī 548 AH Ijtihādī – Theological & Literary Arabic 10 A correcting, editing and addition to Tafsīr al-Tibyān of Shaykh Ṭūsī
Rawḍ al-Jinān wa Rūḥ al-Janān Abū al-Futūḥ al-Rāzī 556-560 AH Ijtihādī – Theological, Mystical & Literary Farsi 20
Fiqh al-Qurʼān Quṭb al-Dīn Saʿīd b. ʿAbdullah al-Rāwandī 573 AH Traditional & Analytical Arabic 2
Mutashābih al-Qurʼān Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. ʿAli b. Shahrʼāshūb al-Māzandarānī 558 AH Ijtihādī – Analytical & Literary Arabic 2
Nahj al-Bayān ʿan Kashf Maʿānī al-Qurʼān Muḥammad b. Ḥasan Shaybānī Around 640 AH Traditional Arabic 5
Tafsīr al-Balābil al-Qalāqil Abū al-Makārim Maḥmūd b. Ḥasanī Wāʿiẓ 7th Century AH Traditional & Theological Farsi 3
Tafsīr al-Muḥīt al-Aʿẓam Sayyid Ḥaydar Āmulī 787 AH Thematic – Mystical & Sufism Arabic 4
Jilāʼ al-ʼAdhhān wa Jalāʼ al-ʼAḥzān Abū al-Maḥāsīn Jurjānī 8th Century AH Ijtihādī – Theological & Literary Arabic 10 Summary of Rawḍ al-Jinān
Sʿad al-Suʿūd Sayyid b. Ṭāwūs 665 AH Ijtihādī Arabic 1
Manhaj al-Ṣādiqīn fī Ilzām al-Mukhālifīn Shaykh Fatḥallāh Kāshānī 988 AH Traditional – Ethical & Mystical Farsi 10
Tafsīr al-Ṣāfī Shaykh Fayḍ Kāshānī 1091 AH Traditional – Mystical Arabic 5
Al-Burhān fī al-Tafsīr al-Qurʼān Sayyid Hāshim Baḥrānī 1107 AH Traditional Arabic 5
Nūr al-Thaqalayn ʿAbd ʿAli b. Jumuʿah al-ʿUrūsī al-Ḥuwayzī 1112 AH Traditional Arabic 5
Tafsīr Kanz al-Daqāʼiq Muḥammad b. Riḍā Mashhadī Qumī 1125 AH Traditional with Explanations Arabic 14
Zubdah al-Bayān fī Aḥkām al-Qurʼān Muqaddas Ardabīlī 993 AH Jurisprudential Arabic 1
Tafīr al-Qurʼān al-Karīm Mullā Ṣadrā 1050 AH Philosophical & Mystical Arabic 7
Al-Wajīz – Tafsīr al-Shubbar Sayyid ʿAbdullāh Shubbar 1242 AH Ijtihādī – Traditional Arabic 1
Partūʼī az Qurʼān Sayyid Maḥmūd Ṭāliqānī 1399 AH Ijtihādī – Intellectual & Social Farsi 6
Al-Qurʼān wa al-ʿAql Sayyid Nūr al-Dīn Ḥusaynī ʿIrāqī 1341 AH Rational Arabic 3
Bayān al-Saʿādah fī Muqāmāt al-ʿIbādah Sulṭān Muḥammad Gunābādī 1327 AH Mystical Arabic 4
Al-Ālāʼ al-Raḥmān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān ʿAllāmah Muḥammad jawād Balāghī 1352 AH Ijtihādī Arabic 2
Tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-Karīm Sayyid Muṣṭafā Khumaynī 1397 AH Ijtihādī – Intellectual & Social Arabic 5
Tafsīr al-Mīzān ʿAllāmah Muḥammad Ḥusayn Ṭabāṭabāʼī 1402 AH Ijtihādī – Explaining Qurʼān by the Qurʼān Arabic 20
Tafsīr Namūneh Nāṣir Makārim Shīrāzī & coauthors Alive Ijtihādī – Social & Literary Farsi 27
Min Waḥī al-Qurʼān Sayyid Muḥammad Ḥusayn Faḍlullāh 2010 AD Social & Spiritual Training Arabic 11
Al-Kāshif Muḥammad Jawād Mughnīyah 1400 AH Social Arabic 7
Al-Furqān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān bi al-Qurʼān wa al-Sunnah Muḥammad Ṣādiqī Tehrānī 2011 AD Ijtihādī – Explaining Qurʼān by the Qurʼān Arabic 30
Al-Tafsīr al-Atharī al-Jamiʿ Muḥammad Hādī Mʿarifat 2007 AD Traditional with Explanations Arabic 30
Makhzan al-ʿIrfān Nuṣrat Amīn 1403 AH Ijtihādī – Mystical & Philosophical Farsi 15
Tafsīr Nūr Muḥsin Qarāʼatī Kāshānī Alive Traditional with Explanations Farsi 10
Tafsīr Tasnīm Jawādī Āmulī Alive Ijtihādī – Mystical & Philosophical Farsi 60
Tafsīr Rāhnumā Hāshimī Rafsanjānī 2017 AD Thematic Farsi 20
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SunnĪ TAFĀSĪR
Tafsīr Author Demise Style Language Size Notes
Maʿāni al-Qurʼān Yaḥyā al-Farrāʼ 210 AH Literary Arabic 3
Majāz al-Qurʼān Abū ʿUbaydah 208 AH Literary Arabic 2
Naẓm al-Qurʼān Abū ʿUthmān Jāḥiẓ 255 AH Literary Arabic
Tafsīr Jamiʿ al-Bayān fī Taʼwīl al-Qurʼān Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad b. Jarīr Ṭabarī 310 AH Traditional Arabic 12
Tafsīr al-Musnad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Muḥammad b. Idrīs (Abū Ḥātim Rāzi) 327 AH Traditional Arabic 12
Tafsīr Baḥr al-ʿUlūm (Samarqandī) Abū Layth Samarqandī 373 AH Traditional Arabic 3
Maʿāni al-Qurʼān Abū Isḥāq Zajjāj 311 AH Literary Arabic 5 Etymological and grammatical tafsīr
Al-Nakt fī Iʿjāz al-Qurʼān Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. ʿĪsā Rummānī 386 AH Theological Arabic
Taʼwīlāt al-Qurʼān (Ahl al- Sunnah) Abū Manṣūr Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Māturīdī 333 AH Theological Arabic 10 Founder of the Māturīdī sect. Tafsīr is of Sūrah Munāfiqūn till end, and beginning till end of Sūrah Baqarah
Al-Kashf wa al-Bayān Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad al-Thaʿlabī 427 AH Traditional & Ijtihādī Arabic 10 Paid attention to 14 dimensions (v1, p 16)
Al-Wasīt fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-Majīd Abū al-Ḥasan Wāhidī Nayshābūrī 468 AH Traditional Arabic 4
Al-Nakt wa al-ʿUyūn Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad Ḥabīb Māwardī Baṣrī 450 AH Traditional Arabic 6 Author was Shāfiʿī
Al-Muḥarrir al-Wajīz Ibn ʿAṭiyyah Andalusī 543 AH Traditional Arabic 1 First author to dismiss Isrāʼīliyyāt, and author was strong in Dirāyah
Tafsīr al-Qurʼān Abū al-Muẓaffar Samʿānī 489 AH Traditional & Literary Arabic 6 Author was Shāfiʿī
Laṭāʼif al-Ishārāt Abū al-Qāsim b. ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Hawāzīn Qushayrī Nayshābūrī 465 AH Mystical Arabic 3
Tafsīr b. Abū Muslim Isfahānī Muḥammad b. ʿAli Abū Muslim Isfahānī 459 AH Literary Arabic 24 Muʿtazalī
Al-Kashhāf Jārullāh Zamakhsharī 538 AH Literary & Theological Arabic 6
Maʿālim al-Tanzīl Abū Muḥammad b. Masʿūd Baghawī 516 AH Traditional with Explanations Arabic 8
Zād al-Masīr fī ʿIlm al-Tafsīr Abū al-Faraj b. Muḥammad al-Jawzī 597 AH Traditional-Analytical & Literary Arabic 9
Kashf al-Asrār wa ʿIddah al-Abrār Abū al-Faḍl Rashīd al-Dīn Maybudī 530 AH Mystical Farsi 10 Originally written by Khājah ʿAbdullāh Anṣārī (d. 481)
Tafsīr Kabīr (Mafātīh al-Ghayb) Fakhr al-Dīn Rāzī 606 AH Ijtihādī – Theological & Philosophical Arabic 32
Al-Jamiʿ li Aḥkām al-Qurʼān Abū ʿAbdullāh Qurṭubī 761 AH Ijtihādī – Literary & Jurisprudence Arabic 24
Anwār al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Taʼwīl Abū al-Khayr b. Bayḍāwī Shīrāzī 685 AH Ijtihādī – Literary Arabic 4
Madārik al-Tanzīl wa Haqāʼiq al-Tʼawīl Ibn Maḥmūd Nasafī 710 AH Ijtihādī Arabic 5
Lubāb al-Tʼawīl fī Maʿāni al-Tanzīl ʿAlāʼ al-Dīn al-Khāzin 725 AH Traditional Arabic 5
Gharāʼib al-Qurʼān wa Raghāʼib al-Furqān Ḥasan b. Muḥammad Qummī Nayshābūrī 730 AH Ijtihādī – Philosophical, Mystical & Theological Arabic 6 Dispute whether he was Shīʿah or Sunnī
Al-Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ fī al-Tafsīr Abū Ḥayyān Andalusī Gharnāṭī 745 AH Ijtihādī – Literary Arabic 10
Tafsīr al-Qur’an al-Aẓīm Abū al-Fidāʼ b. Kathīr Damishqī 775 AH Traditional Arabic 4
Al-Jawāhir al-Hisān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Thaʿālabī 876 AH Traditional Arabic 5
Al-Nazm al-Durar fī Tanāsūb al-Āyāt wa al-Suwar Burhān al-Dīn Abū al-Ḥasan Baqāʼī 885 AH Mystical Arabic 22
Taʼwīlāt al-Najmiyyah fī Tafsīr al-Ishārī Najm al-Dīn Asadī 654 AH Mystical Arabic 4
Durr al-Manthūr fī al-Tafsīr bil al-Maʼthūr Jalāl al-Dīn Suyūtī 911 AH Traditional Arabic 17
Rūh al-Bayān Shaykh Ismāʿīl Haqqī Burūsawī 1127 AH Mystical & Literary Arabic 10
Fatḥ al-Qadīr Muḥammad b. ʿAli b. Shawkānī 1250 AH Traditional Arabic 5 Author was born in a Zaydī family, but later became a Sunnī
Rūh al-Maʿānī Shahāb al-Dīn Ālūsī Baghdād 1270 AH Ijtihādī Arabic 15
Bayān al-Maʼāni ʿala Ḥasab Tartīb al-Nuzūl ʿAbd al-Qādir Mullāh Hawīsh 1398 AH Chronological with Explanations Arabic 6 Chronological tafsīr
Tafsīr al-Ḥadīth Muḥammad ʿIzzah Nāblusī 1400 AH Chronological with Explanations Arabic 10 Chronological tafsīr
Al-Jawāhir fī Tafsīr al-Qurʼān al-Karīm Ṭanṭāwī Jawharī 1357 AH Intellectual Arabic 20
Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʼān Sayyid Quṭb 1386 AH Social & Scientific Arabic 6 Translated into English as In the Shade of the Qur’an
Al-Manār Shaykh Muḥammad ʿAbduh & Sayyid Rashīd Riḍā 1323 & 1354 AH Social & Scientific Arabic 12
Maḥāsin al-Taʼwīl Jamāl al-Dīn Qāsimī 1332 AH Social Arabic 17
Tafsīr al-Murāghī Aḥmad Muṣṭafā Murāghī 1371 AH Social Arabic 10
Aḍwāʼ al-Bayān fī Īḍāḥ al-Qurʼān bi al-Qurʼān Muḥammad Amīn Shanqītī 1393 AH Explaining Qurʼān by the Qurʼān Arabic 10
Tafsīr al-Qurʼān li al-Qurʼān al-Karīm ʿAbd al-Karīm Khaṭīb 1396 AH Ijtihādī – Explaining Qurʼān by the Qurʼān Arabic 16
Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr Ibn ʿ Āshūr 1393 AH Ijtihādī – Social & Literary Arabic 15
Zahrah al-Tafasīr Muḥammad Abū Zahrah 1394 AH Social Arabic 10
Tafsīr al-Munīr Wahbah al-Zaḥīlī Alive Ijtihādī – Social Arabic 16
Al-Asās fī al-Tafsīr Saʿīd Ḥawwī 1989 AD Social Arabic 16
Tafsīr al-Shaʿrāwī Muḥammad Mutawallī Shaʿrāwī 1411 AH Social Arabic 15

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