Methodological controls in inferring meanings from the Sunnah of the Prophet, according to Imam al-Tabari ~ in his interpretation  (Jami’ al-Bayan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an)

Balela, Alia Sami Saleh

doi:10.21608/bfda.2025.376249.1696

Methodological controls in inferring meanings from the Sunnah of the Prophet, according to Imam al-Tabari ~ in his interpretation (Jami’ al-Bayan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an)

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Alia Sami Saleh Balela

Master&#039;s Researcher in the Department of the Holy Qur&#039;an and Islamic Studies, College of Sharia and Law, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

10.21608/bfda.2025.376249.1696

Abstract

The research aims to explain the care of Imam al -Tabari ~ with the evidence of the Prophet’s Sunnah in his interpretation, and to reveal the methodological controls that he followed in his inference in the Prophet’s Sunnah, and the research included an introduction, a prelude and a research, stated in the preliminary: the definition of the inferiority of the Prophet’s Sunnah on the meanings in the interpretation, and the topic is its title: the methodological controls in the reasoning of the Prophet’s meanings on the meanings of the imam.

Then the research was concluded to results, including: that the properly correct Sunnah guide in the indication of the meaning is absolutely presented, and the care of Imam al -Tabari ~ by directing the meanings of hadiths when inferring in them, and that is from the complete approach of reasoning in the Prophet’s Sunnah to the Qur’anic meanings, and I recommended as a researcher: a study of a comparison between the inferences of the Imam al -Tabari ~ The Prophet is on the meanings as a lot.

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