al-Tafsir al-Basit
التَّفْسِيرُ الْبَسِيطُ
al-Tafsir al-Basit (The Extensive Commentary) by Ali b. Ahmad al-Wahidi al-Naysaburi (d. 468 AH / 1076 CE) is the longest and most detailed of the three tafsir works Wahidi authored, the others being al-Tafsir al-Wajiz (concise) and al-Tafsir al-Wasit (intermediate). The three works were designed as a graduated series of increasing detail, and al-Basit spans 25 volumes in the critical printed edition. Its objective is to provide exhaustive linguistic, grammatical, and transmitted analysis of each Quranic verse for advanced scholars, drawing on classical Arabic grammar, lexicography, and transmitted narrations. Wahidi was an Ashari Shafii scholar from Nishapur and a student of Thaalabi, whom he succeeded as the leading Quranic scholar of Khorasan. The work is an important classical reference for scholars of Quranic linguistics and tafsir history, primarily of specialist and academic interest. More...
al-Tafsir al-Basit (The Extensive Commentary) by Ali b. Ahmad al-Wahidi al-Naysaburi (d. 468 AH / 1076 CE) is the longest and most detailed of the three tafsir works Wahidi authored, the others being al-Tafsir al-Wajiz (concise) and al-Tafsir al-Wasit (intermediate). The three works were designed as a graduated series of increasing detail, and al-Basit spans 25 volumes in the critical printed edition. Its objective is to provide exhaustive linguistic, grammatical, and transmitted analysis of each Quranic verse for advanced scholars, drawing on classical Arabic grammar, lexicography, and transmitted narrations. Wahidi was an Ashari Shafii scholar from Nishapur and a student of Thaalabi, whom he succeeded as the leading Quranic scholar of Khorasan. The work is an important classical reference for scholars of Quranic linguistics and tafsir history, primarily of specialist and academic interest.