| Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas | |
| Author: | Firuzabadi (compiler) |
| Title Orig: | تنوير المقباس من تفسير ابن عباس |
| Orig Lang Code: | ar |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Genre: | Tafsir (interpretation and exegesis of the Qur'an) |
Tanwir al-Miqbas, fully known as Tanwir al-Miqbas min Tafsir Ibn Abbas is a book of Tafsir; comprising exegesis and interpretation of the Qur'an. The book contains narrations of disputed authenticity which are attributed to the 7th-century Islamic scholar and Sahabi, Ibn Abbas. It was first compiled by the Persian Islamic scholar, Firuzabadi.
Tanwir al-Miqbas is a compilation of narrations regarding exegesis and interpretation of the Qur'an that are attributed to Ibn Abbas, of varying authenticity.[1] These narrations were first copied down and then collected by the scholar Firuzabadi who subsequently published a complete compilation of these narrations all into one book.[2] The content in this book is considered atypical for a Tafsir work, especially one attributed to a Sahabi.[3]
A good number of Islamic scholars have clarified that the narrations in the book cannot be authentically attributed to Ibn Abbas. Dr. Mokrane Guezzou, who first translated the Tanwir al-Miqbas book into English, says the following in the introduction of the work:[4] Muhammad Taqi Usmani, in his work Uloomu-l-Qur'an, agrees that Tanwir al-Miqbas cannot be attributed to Ibn Abbas and also comments on the unreliability of the chain of transmission of the narrations in the book:[5] Bilal Philips in Usool at-Tafseer states that Tanwir al-Miqbas cannot be relied upon, due to it having Ibn al-Kalbi in the chain of transmission.Phillips then added that, Ibn al-Kalbi was accused of making up Hadith (narrations from Muhammad or his companions, the Sahaba) hence Tanwir al-Miqbas cannot be an authentic work from Ibn Abbas himself.
Abdul-Rahim Reasat, on authority of Faraz Rabbani, stated that Tanwir al-Miqbas could not be relied upon, due to problematic narrators in the chain of transmission:[6]