These are my complete notes on the book Lubaab al-Tahreer fee Usool al-Tafseer, which is a summary of a much larger book by Shaykh Musa’id ibn Sulayman al-Tayyar’s remarkable work on the topic of principles of tafseer. Shaykh Musa’id is considered one of the most influential people in the field of principles of tafseer in the modern era.
I first came to learn of Shaykh Musa’id in a course related to various tafseer books written throughout the ages and their impact. It was then that I decided to go through the summary of the book and produce English notes based on it for eager students of knowledge who are not yet able to benefit from Arabic books. However, I became busy with some other projects and was not able to dedicate the appropriate time for this very small but useful endeavor.
This is an important and serious topic of study for anyone wanting to delve deeper into tafseer literature. It looks to answer questions such as: what exactly is tafseer? What are the sources of tafseer? Why do scholars differ about the meaning of a verse? What is the difference between an acceptable and rejected tafseer? If there are differences of opinion over the tafseer of a verse, how do we judge between them? The book and the notes expect some level of basic understanding of the topic, therefore, the writing will not be as detailed as someone completely unfamiliar with the topic would want it to be.
I pray the reader is able to benefit from them as much as I did while noting them down and that it serves as a means to draw the reader closer to His perfect book and to connect with the marvelous contributions in tafseer made by the luminaries of this ummah.
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