Quran and Hadith Studies‎

Identifying the Author of Tanwir ul-Meqbas through the Geographical Region of Origin of the Work and Comparing the objects

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

1 Researcher and university lecturer

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Quranic and Hadith Sciences, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran.

10.30497/qhs.2025.239703.3965

Abstract

A one-volume commentary, almost three centuries ago, due to the presence of Ibn Abbas's name at the beginning of each sura, the lost work of Firouzabadi, Tanwir ul-Meqbas, was considered to be Ibn Abbas's commentary. The publication of the book with this name marked a series of researches among Western researchers. Finally, instead of Firouzabadi, some called Kalbi, some Ibn Wahab Dinavari, and some Abdullah Ibn Mubarak Dinavari as the author of the book. The current research is descriptive-analytical in terms of its fundamental purpose and in terms of method, and it aims to identify the main author by identifying the Habit of the formation of this book and comparing its text with the items available in that geographical area. This research shows that, firstly, the narrators in the book's Isnaads all belong to the east of the Islamic world. Secondly, the comparison of the contents of the book with the narrations of Kalbi in other writings related to the east of the Islamic world shows that the content of the book corresponds to the narrations of Kolbi in the writings after the third century of Hijri in terms of "content", "words" and "interpretive style". Thirdly, the search for reports of the external existence of Kalbi's commentary, shows that "Kalbi's commentary" had a physical existence in the east of the Islamic world from the third century onwards. Fourthly, the narrator has added some points to the original book with the meanings of "QIL" and "UQAL". Therefore, the existing commentary is a layered text and the work of several authors.

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Quran and Hadith Studies‎
Volume 18, Issue 2 - Serial Number 36
March 2025
Pages 77-104