al-Sahih al-Masbur min al-Tafsir bil-Mathur

al-Sahih al-Masbur min al-Tafsir bil-Mathur (The Examined Authentic Compilation of Tradition-Based Exegesis) is a multi-volume Quranic commentary compiled by the contemporary scholar Hikmat Bashir Yasin, devoted to collecting exclusively authentic tradition-based interpretations of the Quran al-Sahih al-Masbur min al…+1.

Composition and Purpose

The author began contemplating the project in 1404 AH, though he initially hesitated due to the vastness of the subject and the abundance of relevant manuscript and printed sources Majallat al-Jami'a al-Isl…. The direct impetus arose when he was assigned to teach Quranic exegesis (tafsir), exegetical methodologies (manahij al-mufassirin), and the biographical ranks of exegetes (tabaqat al-mufassirin) at the College of the Holy Quran and the graduate division of the Islamic University of Madinah Majallat al-Jami'a al-Isl…. Finding an urgent need for an exegesis that purged weak and extraneous material (al-dakhil) and brought together sound transmissions, he undertook research trips to acquire and consult rare manuscripts and printed sources, such as surviving portions of the commentaries of Abd ibn Humayd (d. 249 AH) and Ibn al-Mundhir (d. 318 AH) Majallat al-Jami'a al-Isl…+1. His stated objective was to compile all chains of transmission in traditional exegesis whose authenticity was established, allowing readers to rely on sound narrations attributed to the Prophet, the Companions, and the Successors al-Tafsir al-Nabawi+1.

Methodology and Sources

The work follows a systematic, tiered methodology arranged according to the standard order of the Quranic chapters (surahs) al-Sahih al-Masbur min al…+1:

• Virtues of the Surahs: The author prefaces each chapter with reports concerning its virtues, provided they are authentically transmitted al-Sahih al-Masbur min al….
• Interpreting the Quran by the Quran: He introduces the commentary of verses by pairing them with other clarifying Quranic verses, drawing primarily upon Adwa' al-Bayan by Muhammad al-Amin al-Shinqiti, the Tafsir of Ibn Kathir, and Mahasin al-Ta'wil by Muhammad Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi al-Sahih al-Masbur min al….
• Prophetic Traditions (Marfu' reports): He prioritizes hadiths agreed upon by al-Bukhari and Muslim, followed by those recorded individually by either of them, dispensing with further sourcing due to their accepted status al-Sahih al-Masbur min al…. If a hadith is not in the two Sahihs, he extracts it from primary source collections of hadith, exegesis, Quranic sciences, biography, and creed, evaluating each chain to ensure it reaches the grade of sahih (authentic) or hasan (sound) based on the verdicts of established critics al-Tafsir al-Nabawi. Weak (da'if) and fabricated (mawdu') narrations are completely excluded al-Tafsir al-Nabawi.
• Sayings of the Companions and Successors: In the absence of an authentic prophetic narration for a verse, the author turns to sound statements of the Companions, and if none are found, to sound reports from the Successors (Tabi'un) al-Tafsir al-Nabawi. Even when a prophetic report exists, he may append statements from the Companions if they provide supplementary clarification al-Tafsir al-Nabawi.

Structure and Publication

The compilation opens with an extensive introduction spanning approximately sixty pages that outlines the history, significance, and codification of tradition-based exegesis through the fourth century AH, the critical standards of the hadith scholars, and an analysis of recurring transmission chains (al-turuq al-mutakarrira) to prominent Companions and Successors al-Tafsir al-Nabawi. The body of the work presents the tradition-based commentaries on each surah, followed by indexes of sources and contents al-Tafsir al-Nabawi.

The work was published under the title Mawsu'at al-Sahih al-Masbur min al-Tafsir bil-Mathur in four volumes by Dar al-Ma'athir in Medina (first edition, 1420 AH / 1999 CE) al-Sahih al-Masbur min al….