Juz fihi Tafsir al-Quran bi-Riwayat Abi Jafar al-Tirmidhi
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- 295 AH
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Juz fihi Tafsir al-Quran bi-Riwayat Abi Jafar al-Tirmidhi (A Booklet Containing Exegesis of the Qur'an Transmitted by Abu Ja'far al-Tirmidhi) is an early collection of Quranic exegesis transmitted by the Shafi'i jurist and hadith scholar Abu Ja'far al-Tirmidhi (d. 295 AH / 907 CE), assembling exegetical traditions from four authorities of the second century AH.
Contents and Transmission
The work is a specialized monograph (juz') compiling tafsir reports from four early scholars: Yahya ibn Yaman (d. 189 AH), the Medina Quran reciter Nafi ibn Abi Nuaym (d. 169 AH), the jurist of Mecca Muslim ibn Khalid al-Zanji (d. 179 AH), and the Successor Ata ibn Abi Muslim al-Khurasani (d. 135 AH). The traditions attributed to 'Ata' al-Khurasani are preserved through the transmission route of Yunus ibn Yazid, comprising 177 explicit interpretive statements.
The transmission chain (isnad) preserved in the text runs from Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Nasr al-Tirmidhi to Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Yunus al-Mutarriz al-Muqri', who transmitted it to the preacher Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Isma'il, known as Ibn Samun (recited in his mosque in 327 AH). It was then transmitted by Abu al-Husayn Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Hasnun al-Narsi (who authorized it in 456 AH), recorded by Ahmad ibn 'Ubayd Allah al-'Ukbari, and read to Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik ibn Khayrun al-Muqri'.
Scholarly Significance and Publication
The collection is considered a source for early exegetical traditions, offering unique additions (zawa'id) not documented in major subsequent compendiums such as al-Durr al-Manthur, especially regarding the reasoned exegesis (al-tafsir al-ijtihadi) of 'Ata' al-Khurasani.
A manuscript of the work is preserved in the al-Zahiriyya Library in Damascus (Majmu' 95, folios 119–132). It was edited by Hikmat Bashir Yasin and published by Maktabat al-Dar in Medina in 1408 AH / 1988 CE in a single volume of 190 pages. While the cover of the print edition rendered the transmitter's attribution as "al-Ramli", this was corrected to al-Tirmidhi based on the title folio of the original manuscript.
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