Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Yoosuf Al-Firyaabi (212 AH) And his Approach to Explication

Abstract

This research is an inductive/deductive investigation of Imam Al-Firyaabi's approach to explication in the narrations reported about him in the largest available encyclopedia of explication by transmission, namely the Al-Durr Al-Manthoor by Al-Suyooti. More than (842) sayings, attributed to Imam Al-Firiyaabi by Al-Suyooti were selected.

 Among the most important findings of the research is that Tafseer Al-Firyaabi is one of those explications that are rich in good ascribed narrations which should be taken care of. Truthfully, they are among the strongest ascriptions of explication by transmission due to the fact that Al-Firyaabi is the Sheikh of Abu Abdullah Al-Bukhaari, the Commander of the Believers in Hadith, from whom Al-Bukhari narrated many Hadiths in Saheeh Al-Bukhaari. Another finding is that Al-Firyaabi is one of the most attentive exegetists in pointing out the intended meaning and providing readings, but one of the least to resort to jurisprudential explication (i.e. verses of provisions). As a recommendation, researchers are urged to extract the approaches of the traditionalists reported in their missing books, as referred to in the pages of other books, especially those encyclopedic ones such as Al-Durr Al-Manthoor by Al-Suyooti and Fath Al-Baari by Ibn Hajar, as well as others.

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