Tafsir al-Qummi | |
Title Orig: | تفسير القمي |
Author: | Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi |
Language: | Arabic |
Subject: | Quranic exegesis |
Genre: | Religious |
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The (Arabic: تفسیر القمي), also known as (Persian: تفسیر قمی), is a Shi'i commentary on the Quran by Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi (died 919). It is based on the method of quoting hadiths from the Imams. Most of these hadiths were transmitted by al-Qummi's father, who was one of Muhammad ibn Ya'qub al-Kulayni's teachers.
The comprises at least two different s that have been combined: one by Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi himself, and the other by Abu al-Jarud Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir, a companion of the fifth Imam Muhammad al-Baqir who later became the eponymous founder of the Jarudiyya (an early Zaydi sect). Abu al-Jarud's had been appended to the first by the latter's first transmitter, Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Muhammad.