Tanwīr al-miqbās min tafsīr Ibn ʿAbbās, by attributed to ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbbās; compiled by Majd al-Dīn al-Fīrūzābādī (d. compiler d. 817 AH / 1414 CE). A running gloss, phrase by phrase, transmitted under the name of the Prophet’s cousin Ibn ʿAbbās through a chain (al-Kalbī from Abū Ṣāliḥ) that Muslim scholars have long judged weak; it is read as a witness to early Kufan exegesis rather than as Ibn ʿAbbās’s own words.
The complete commentary on The good news of Aḥmad (61:6), covering 61:6.
On 61:6
61:6. And when Jesus son of Mary said: O Children of Israel, I am the Messenger of God to you, confirming: in agreement, in the profession of God’s oneness and in some of the laws; what was before me of the Torah: what was before me of the Torah; and bringing glad tidings: and I have come to you as a bringer of glad tidings; I give you glad tidings; of a messenger who will come after me, whose name is Aḥmad: he is named Aḥmad, he who is not blamed, and Muḥammad, he who is praised; then when he came to them: Jesus; and it is said, Muḥammad (peace and blessings be upon him); with clear proofs: with command and prohibition and the wonders which he showed them; they said: This is manifest sorcery: evident sorcery and falsehood.
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This is a complete English rendering of Tanwīr al-miqbās min tafsīr Ibn ʿAbbās on these verses, prepared for this website from the public-domain Arabic text (shamela.ws, book 12877). Nothing is abridged: every opinion, every report with its chain of transmission, every verse of poetry and every grammatical note is translated. Qur’anic quotations are in bold; the translator’s own notes are confined to the numbered footnotes and identify names, terms and variant readings only. A second translator has not checked the rendering, and the Arabic is linked so that any passage can be compared. The modern editors’ apparatus is not part of the classical text and is not translated.
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