Exegesis of ibn kathir biography

Qur'anic exegesis book by Ibn Kathir

Tafsir al-Qur'an al-Azim (Arabic: تفسير القرءان العظيم‎, romanized: Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm), commonly known as Tafsir Ibn Kathir (Arabic: تفسير ابن كثير, romanized: Tafsīr Ibn Kathīr), is the Qur'anic exegesis (tafsir) by Ibn Kathir.

It is one of the most famous Islamic books concerned with the science of interpretation of the Quran.^[1]

It also includes jurisprudential rulings, and takes care of the hadiths and is famous for being almost devoid of Israʼiliyyat.^[1] It is the most followed tafsir by Salafists.^[2]

Background

Ibn Kathir did not specify the date of his beginning in commentary, nor the date of its completion, but some deduce the era in which he composed it based on a number of evidence; Of which

• That he composed more than half of the exegesis in the life of his sheikh al-Mazzi (died 742 AH), based on the fact that he mentioned when interpreti