Maalim al-Tanzil fi Tafsir al-Quran (The Guideposts of Revelation in the Exegesis of the Quran) by al-Husayn b. Masud al-Farra al-Baghawi (d. 516 AH / 1122 CE), known as Muhyi al-Sunnah (Reviver of the Sunnah), is an eight-volume classical tafsir widely respected for its scholarly reliability and methodological care. Its central objective is to present sound transmitted interpretations of the Quran from the salaf while deliberately avoiding the weak narrations and unreliable Israiliyyat that had accumulated in earlier tafsir collections. The manhaj is tafsir bi-al-mathur with a strong concern for hadith quality, supplemented by Arabic linguistic commentary, making the work a refined and accessible representative of the classical transmitted tafsir tradition. Baghawi was an Athari Sunni scholar of hadith and Shafii jurisprudence from Khorasan. The work is widely respected in the classical tafsir tradition and frequently cited by Sunni scholars, particularly in Salafi and Athari circles, where it is often studied alongside or as a predecessor to Ibn Kathir. More...