Abd Ibn Hameed and the Place of his Explication among the Most Famous Selected Explications: A Comparative Study

Abstract

This research is an inference, a deduction and an extrapolation of Imam Abd Ibn Hameed's methodology in his explication of the Quran. It is based on the narrations reported about him in the largest encyclopedia of explication by transmission available, which is "Al-Durr Al-Manthoor" by Al-SuyooTi. The researcher extracted more than (7000) transmitted sayings attributed to Imam Abd Ibn Hameed by Al-SuyooTi.

The findings reveal that Imam Abd Ibn Hameed cared mostly about readings of the Quran as his narrations exceeded twice the narrations of Ibn Jareer al-Tabari, the Imam of interpreters, in this area. Also, he stood alone with approximately (60%) of the narrations compared with the rest of interpreters. He paid particular attention to Aasim's narrations, as he stood alone with (169) narrations of Aasim's out of (171) narrations cited by Al-SuyooTi in "Al-Durr Al-Manthoor" reported by exegetists.

The researcher suggests and recommends compiling the legacy of Abd Ibn Hameed in explication fromold scholars' books in our hands such as Al-Durr and FatH Al-Baari and demonstrate its importance, in addition to collecting the narrations of old scholars explications in the various types of explication to show the extent of old scholars' knowledge, such as collecting the narrations on virtues, subtleties, or Da`wah, etc. Also, taking advantage of electronic libraries in collecting narrations, and making useful programs in the categorization of narrations since manual categorization has proved over the years to be tedious to the researcher.