Critical Studies on the Quranic Exegesis

Critical Studies on the Quranic Exegesis

Athar al-Rasūl (The Track of the Messenger) : Attitudes of Muslim Exegetes On Qurʾān 20: 96

Document Type : Original article

Authors
1 Mashhad College of Quranic Sciences, University of Holy Quran Sciences and Education, Mashhad, Iran.
2 Assistant Professor of Mashhad Faculty of Quranic Sciences, University of Sciences and Education of Holy Quran, Mashhad, Iran.
Abstract
The Holy Qurʾān has verses and phrases that do not have clear indications and instances and exegetes are not unanimous in their interpretations. In the verse 96 of Surah Taha, “He said, I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful [of dust] from the track of the messenger and threw it, and thus did my soul entice me”, which indicates the Samaritanʾs response to Prophet Moses questioning of his peopleʾs calf worship, is an example of such unanimous interpretation. The present study aims to analyze the meaning of the term "the track of the messenger" in a descriptive-analytical way. Examining the narrative and interpretative sources of Farīqiyn (Shia and Sunni) and analyzing the implications of the verse shows that Allām-e Ṫabāṭabāīʾs view point who considers the track as gold and the Messenger as Moses, and says “the track of the messenger, was the gold of Moses or attributed to him, which Moses ordered to collect from the Copts and carry with themselves, and then Samaritan made a statue with these golds, which is inside the hollow and whenever the air goes through, It would come out of its mouth with pressure, making the sound of a calf”, is compatible with the logic of verse 87 and Therefore is closer to correctness and preferred over other interpretations.
Keywords

Subjects


  • Holy Qurān, persian translation by Bahāʾuddīn Khorramshāhī.
  • Abulfutūḥ Rāzī, Ḥusiyn b. ʿAlī, Rawḍ Al-Jinan, ed. Moḥammad Mahdī Naṣeḥ and Moḥammad Jaʿfar Yāḥaqqī, Mashhad, Āstān Qods, 1370 SAH.
  • Ālūsī, Maḥmūd b. ʾAbd Allāh, Rūḥ Al-Maʾānī, Beirut, Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyyah, 1415 AH.
  • Amīn, Nosrat Beygūm, Makhzan al-ʿIrfān, Tehrān, Nīḥdhat Dhanān Musalmān, 1361 SAH.
  • Baḥrānī, Ḥāshīm, Al-Burhān, Tehrān: Beʿthat Academy, 1416AH.
  • Bayḑāwi, ʾĀbdullah b. ʾŪmar, Anwār Al-Tanzil, Beirut, Dār Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʾĀrabī, 1998.
  • Faḍlullāḥ, Muḥammad Ḥusiyn, Mīn Waḥy Al-Qurʾān, Beirut, Dār al-Mīlāk, 1419 AH.
  • Fakhr Rāzī, Muḥammad b. ʿŪmar, Al-Tafsīr Al-Kabīr, Beirut, Dār Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʾĀrabī, 1420 AH.
  • Fiydh Kāshānī, Mullā Muḥsin, Tafsīr Al-Ṣāfī, Tehran, Maktabat al-Ṣadr, 1415 AH.
  • Ḥuwayzī, ʿAbd ʿAlī, Nūr Al-Thaqalayn, Qom, Ismāīilīyān, 1415 AH.
  • Ibn ʿĀshūr, Muḥammad Tāhir, Al-Taḥrir wa Al-Tanwir, Beirut, Arabic History Foundation, 1420 AH.
  • Ibn ʿĀṭīyah, Abd al-Ḥaq, Al-Muḥarar Al-Wajīz, Beirut, Dār Al-Kutub Al-ʿIlmiyyah, 1422 AH.
  • Ibn Manḍūr, Muḥammad b. Mukarram, Lisān Al-ʾArab, Beirut, Dār Ṣād, 1414 AH.
  • Jawādī Āmulī, ʿAbdullāh, Tafsīr-e Tasnīm, Qom, Isrāʿ, 1389 SAH.
  • Kāshānī, Fatḥollā b. Shukrullā, Menhaj Al-Sādeqīn, Tehran, Īslāmīye, 1313 SAH.
  • Khālīl b. Aḥmad, Al-ʿAyn, Qom, Dār al-Hijrat, 1409 AH.
  • Kuliynī, Moḥammad b. Yaʿqūb, Al-Kāfī, Tehrān: Dār al-Kutub al-Islāmīya, 1365 SAH.
  • Maghnīyah, Muḥammad Jawād, Al-Kāshīf, Tehrān, Islāmīya, 1424 AH.
  • Makārem Shīrāzī, Nāser, Tafsīr Nemūne, Tehrān, Dār al-Kitāb Islāmīe, 1374 SAH.
  • Maybudī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, Kashf al-Asrār, Tehrān, Amīrkabīr, 1371 SAH.
  • Modarresī, Moḥammad Taqī, Min Hoda Al-Qurān, Tehran, Dār Moḥibbī al-Ḥusiyn(a.s), 1419 AH.
  • Moḥammadī Reyshahrī, Moḥammad, Mīzān Al-Ḥikma, Qom, Dār al-Ḥadīth, 1386 SAH.
  • Muṣṭafawī, Ḥasan, Al-Taḥqīq fi Kalamāt Al-Qurān Al-Karīm, Tehrān, Translation and Punlication of Book Foundation, 1360 SAH.
  • Qumī Mashhadī, Muḥammad b. Muḥammad Ridhā, Kanz Al-Daqāʾiq wa Baḥr Al-Gharāʾib, ed. Husiyn Dagāhi, Tehrān, Ministry of Culture and Guidance Publishing House, 1411 AH.
  • Qumī, Ālī b. Ibrāḥīm, Tafsīr Al-Qumī, Qom, Dār al-Kītāb, 1363 SAH.
  • Qurashī Bunābī, ʿAliAkbar, Tafsīr Aḥsan Al-Ḥadīth, Tehrān: Biʿthat, 1375 SAH.
  • Qurashī, ʿAlī Akbar, Qāmūs-e Qurʿān, Tehran, Islāmīyya, 1371 SAH.
  • Qurtubī, Muḥammad b. Aḥmad, Al-Jamiʿ li Aḥkām Al-Ḳurān, Tehrān, Nāṣir Khusru, 1364 SAH.
  • Quṭb, Sayyid, Fī Dhīlāl Al-Qurʾān, Beirut, Dāral Shurūq, 1412 AH.
  • Rāghib Isfaḥānī, Ḥusiyn b. Muḥammad, Al-Mufradāt, Ṣafwān ʿAdnān Dāwūdī, Biyrūt, Dār al-Shāmīya, Damascus, Dār al-Qalam, 1416 AH.
  • Reḍāyi Iṣfahānī, Moḥammad ʿAlī, Tafsīr Qurān Mehr, Qom, Interpretation and Quranic Sciences Studies, 1388 SAH.
  • Sabziwārī Najafī, Muḥammad b. Ḥabīballāh, Al-Jadīd fī Tafsīr Al-Qurān Al-Majīd, Beirūt, Dar Al-Taʿāruf lil Maṭbūʿāt, 1406 AH.
  • Sha˓rānī, Abulḥasan, Nathr-e Ṭūbā, Tehran, Islāmīya, 1380 SAH.
  • Suyūṭī, ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān b. AbīBakr, Al-Durr Al-Manthūr, Qom, Marʿashī Library, 1404 AH.
  • Ṭabarī, Muḥammad b. Jarīr, Jāmiʿ Al-Bayān fi Tafsīr Al-Qur˓ān, Beirut, Dār al-Maʿrifa, 1412 AH.
  • Ṭabarsī, Faḍl b. Ḥasan, Majmaʿ Al-Bayān, ed. Moḥammad Jawād Balāghī, Tehrān, Nāser Khosro, 1372 SAH.
  • Ṭabarsī, Faḍl b. Ḥasan, Tafsīr Jawāmiʿ Al-Jāmiʿ, Āstān Qods Razawi Researches Foundation, 1388 SAH.
  • Ṫabāṭabāyī, Moḥammad Ḥoseyn, Al-Mīzān, , Qom, Jamā˓a al-Mudarrisīn, 1417 AH.
  • Ṭabāṭabāyī, Moḥammad Ḥuseyn, Al-Mīzān, persian tranlation by Moḥammad Bāqer Mūsavī, Qom, Jamāʿa al-Mudarrisīn, 1374 SAH.
  • Ṫabrasī, Aḥmad b. ˓Alī, Al-Iḥtijāj, Mashhad, al-Murtaḍā, 1403 AH.
  • Ṫabrasī, Aḥmad b. ˓Alī, Al-Iḥtijāj, Najaf Ashraf, Ṫab˓ fi Mṭābi˓ al-Nu˓mān al-Najaf al-Ashraf Ḥasan Ibrāhīm al-Kutubī, 1996.
  • Ṭayyib, ʿAbdol-Ḥoseyn, Aṭyab Al-Bayān, Tehran, Islam Publication, 1378 SAH.
  • Thaʿlabī, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, Al-Kashf wa Al-Bayān, Beirut, Dār Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʿArabī, 1422 AH.
  • The Old Testament, London, Ilām, 2014.
  • Ṭuriyḥī, Fakhr Al-Ddīn, Majmaʿ Al-Baḥriyn, Tehrān: al-Murtadhawī, 1375 SAH.
  • Ṭūsī, Muḥammad b. Ḥasan, Al-Tibyān fi Tafsīr Al-Qur˓ān, Beirut, Dār Ihyāʾ al-Turāth al-ʾĀrabī, 1413 AH.
  • Zamakhsharī, Maḥmūd b. ʿŪmar, Al-Kashshāf, Beirut, Dār al-Kītāb al-ʿArabī, 1407 AH.
  • Zabidī, Sayyid Muḥammad Murtaḍā, Tādj al-ʿArūs, Kuwait, Dār al-Hidāyi, 1420 AH.
Volume 4, Issue 1 - Serial Number 7
September 2023
Pages 135-158

  • Receive Date 05 December 2023
  • Revise Date 15 January 2024
  • Accept Date 27 January 2024