Tafsir al-Qurtubi - Vol. 1

The tafsr of al-Qurub is perhaps one of the most compendious of them all and is certainly among the most famous. As its title, al-Jmi‘ li Akm al-Qur’n – The General Judgments of the Qur’an, suggests, its main focus is on the rulings and judgments to be found in the Qur’n. However, in the course of doing that, al-Qurub examines all the relevant sciences necessary, such as the adth pertaining to the yahs, events in the srah, what the Companions, their Followers and other noted people of knowledge said about the yahs, essential aspects of Arabic etymology, syntax and usage, copiously illustrated by examples, and much more.

In this volume, the author examines the Ftiah in great depth, and then works through the first juz’ (two izbs), stopping to examine linguistic matters, akm/judgments in greater detail, covering, for example, mn, establishment of the alt, zakt, hypocrisy, the Tribe of Israel, the creation of Adam and aww’, caliphate, abrogation, and including the pivotal story of the sacrifice of the cow by the Tribe of Israel.