Tafsir Hadaiq al-Ruh wal-Rayhan fi Rawabi Ulum al-Quran
- Author died
- 1441 AH
- Editions
- Dar Tawq al-Najat
Tafsir Hadaiq al-Ruh wal-Rayhan fi Rawabi Ulum al-Quran (The Gardens of Spirit and Sweet Basil in the Heights of the Sciences of the Quran) is an encyclopedic contemporary commentary on the Quran by the Ethiopian-born Meccan scholar Muhammad al-Amin al-Harari (d. 1441 AH / 2019 CE) . The work gathers traditional interpretations alongside comprehensive linguistic, legal, and rhetorical analyses across the entirety of the Quranic text .
Composition and Structure
Al-Harari commenced drafting the commentary on 2 Muharram 1406 AH and completed the manuscript alongside its comprehensive introduction on 1 Shawwal 1417 AH . The author provided the work with an extensive standalone introduction titled Nuzul Kiram al-Dayfan fi Sahat Hadaiq al-Ruh wal-Rayhan (The Hospitality of Noble Guests in the Courtyard of the Gardens of Spirit and Sweet Basil) . The author initially intended to allocate a separate volume to each of the sixty liturgical sections (ahzab) of the Quran, which would have amounted to sixty-one volumes including the introduction .
Methodology and Scope
The commentary is structured around an exhaustive interdisciplinary approach that integrates several fields of Islamic learning :
- Transmitted Exegesis: It curates the most precise interpretations transmitted from the early generations (salaf) .
- Occasions of Revelation and Rulings: It provides an expansive presentation of the occasions of revelation (asbab al-nuzul) and deduces jurisprudence rulings (ahkam) directly from the verses .
- Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis: It examines variant readings (qira'at), morphology (tasrif), Arabic rhetoric (balaghah), the inimitability of the Quran (i'jaz al-Quran), and extensive grammatical parsing (i'rab), focusing particularly on difficult grammatical constructions .
Publication and Reception
The text was edited, reviewed, and supervised by the author's student, Dr. Hashim Muhammad Ali Mahdi, a research expert at the Muslim World League in Mecca, who was granted an authorization (ijazah) by al-Harari to transmit and teach the commentary . The first edition was published in Beirut by Dar Tawq al-Najat in 1421 AH / 2001 CE in over thirty volumes . Scholars have described it as one of the broadest and most valuable contemporary reference works in Quranic exegesis for harmonizing disparate sciences into a unified, investigative presentation .
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