Abd al-Majid al-Shaykh Abd al-Bari
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Abd al-Majid al-Shaykh Abd al-Bari is a contemporary scholar of Quranic exegesis and prophetic tradition, best known for his academic study compile-indexing the exegetical narrations in Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's commentary Fath al-Bari .
Academic Career and Research
Abd al-Majid al-Shaykh Abd al-Bari pursued his advanced graduate studies at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he earned his doctorate in 1418 AH (c. 1997–1998 CE) . His doctoral dissertation topic was suggested and supervised by Professor Hikmat Bashir Yasin, who encouraged him to tackle the vast body of exegetical material scattered throughout Ibn Hajar's commentary .
In producing this study, titled al-Riwayat al-Tafsiriyya fi Fath al-Bari (The Exegetical Narrations in Fath al-Bari), he combed through the entire text of Fath al-Bari line by line—a compilation effort that took roughly a full year—to extract, reconstruct, and classify fragmented narrations . He cataloged a total of 3,541 non-repeated exegetical reports, finding material related to every chapter of the Quran with the single exception of Surah al-Qadr . In his analytical assessment, 53% of the collected narrations were evaluated as authentic (sahih) or good (hasan), 20% as weak (da'if), and 25% remained of undetermined grade, including 10% for which no primary source chain could be traced .
Scholarly Reception
Abd al-Bari's comprehensive extraction has served as an authoritative reference for subsequent researchers in Quranic sciences. The compilers of the encyclopedic compendium Mawsu'at al-tafsir al-ma'thur noted that his exhaustive survey of Fath al-Bari was sufficiently thorough to obviate the need for their own independent extraction of its exegetical reports .
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al-Riwayat al-Tafsiriyya fi Fath al-Bari (The Exegetical Narrations in Fath al-Bari) is a specialized academic study that compiles, documents, and analyzes the exegetical traditions cited throughout Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani's commentary Fath al-Bari. Conceived as a doctoral dissertation, it gathers more than 3,500 exegetical reports scattered across the commentary, arranging them sequentially according to the surahs and verses of the Quran alongside an analytical study of Ibn Hajar's methodology, sources, and contributions to Quranic sciences.