Khalid al-Batli
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Khalid al-Batli is a contemporary Saudi scholar of Hadith and Quranic exegesis, best known for his study al-Tafsir al-Nabawi (Prophetic Exegesis) .
Education and Academic Career
His full name is Khalid ibn Abd al-Aziz ibn Hamad al-Batli . He pursued higher Islamic studies at Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University in Riyadh, completing his doctorate in the Department of Sunnah and Its Sciences within the Faculty of Usul al-Din . His doctoral dissertation was defended in Muharram 1429 AH before an examination committee chaired by Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Subayhi alongside Anis ibn Ahmad Jamal and Abdullah ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Sharif, and was passed with distinction .
Scholarly Contribution
Al-Batli's scholarship focuses on hadith criticism and its applications to Quranic exegesis and Islamic jurisprudence. His doctoral research was published in two volumes under the title al-Tafsir al-Nabawi: Muqaddimah Ta’siliyyah ma‘a Dirasah Hadithiyyah li-Ahadith al-Tafsir al-Nabawi al-Sarih (Prophetic Exegesis: A Methodological Introduction and Hadith Study of Explicit Exegetical Traditions), in which he examined the principles of interpreting the Quran through the Sunnah and subjected explicit prophetic exegetical narrations to rigorous chain-and-text evaluation . In legal hadith analysis, he authored Ahadith al-Buyu‘ al-Manhiyy ‘Anha: Riwayatan wa-Dirayatan (Traditions on Prohibited Commercial Transactions: Transmission and Comprehension), addressing the narrations concerning forbidden business practices and their jurisprudential implications .
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al-Tafsir al-Nabawi: Muqaddimah Ta’siliyyah ma‘a Dirasah Hadithiyyah li-Ahadith al-Tafsir al-Nabawi al-Sarih is a contemporary two-volume study in Quranic exegesis and hadith criticism. It provides a foundational introduction to prophetic exegesis alongside a critical hadith study of explicit prophetic exegetical traditions.