Analysis and study of the commentary of "Min Waḥy al-Qurʾān" in relation to the validation of narrations according to the verses of the stories

Document Type : Research Article

Authors
seyede Zeynab Hosseini 1
zohreh akhavanmoghadam 2
1 4th level Scholar in Comparative Interpretation, Rafieh Al-Mustafa Institute of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran.
2 Member of the Qur'an and Hadith Department and the Academic Board of the Noble Qur'anic Sciences and Education University - Tehran - Iran
10.30497/qhs.2025.244748.3796
Abstract
The narrow-minded are always aware of the functions of stories in human history. The Quran has narrated the stories of the predecessors in the best way for us to learn lessons. Numerous interpretive narrations have been included under the verses related to the Quranic stories, which in some way seek to explain these verses. The present study is organized to answer the question of what is Faḍlallāh's position on the narrations of the stories of the Quran? And does he consider the narrations regarding the stories to be credible or not? Based on the findings of the study, which was conducted using the inferential method and descriptive-analytical approach, "Min Waḥy al-Qurʾān" is among the contemporary commentaries that mentions interpretive narrations and uses them in the interpretation; however, Faḍlallāh's interaction with the interpretive narrations regarding the verses of the stories is a very strict method of "rejecting and denying the narrations". In his opinion, chaos and disorder have occurred in the field of narrations regarding the stories of the Quran. Therefore, his method of dealing with narrations regarding the stories of the Quran is the method of hadith criticism and he does not accept narrations introduced in the field of stories and tests them with the following criteria: avoiding weak narrations, rejecting narratives based on subjective interpretations, not accepting narrations due to their contradiction with the appearance of the verse, setting aside narrations due to their inconclusiveness or lack of standardization of some narrations, rejecting unrelated narrations, doubting the authenticity and inaccuracy of narrations, rejecting single news, and rejecting narrations based on the Meccan or Medinan nature of the verses.
Keywords
Stories of the Quran
exegetical narrations
Fake Hadith
Min Waḥy al-Qurʾān
Sayyid Muhammad Hussein Faḍlallāh
Subjects
The Holy Quran.
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Quran and Hadith Studies‎
Volume 19, Issue 1 - Serial Number 37
September 2025
Pages 123-140