Incompatibility of Distortion-Related Narrations in the book "Al-Burhān fī Tafsīr al-Quran"

Document Type : Research Article

Authors

• Seyyed mahdi Naghibi ¹
• Sayyid Mahdi Sayyedi ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of Jurisprudence and Principles, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

² Ph.D. Student, Department of Quranic Sciences and Hadith, Razavi University of Islamic Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

10.22067/jquran.2024.86024.1647

Abstract

The prevailing view among Islamic sects regarding the Quranic text is its immunity from any distortion, whether by addition or omission. Still, some have accepted varying levels of textual alteration. Meanwhile, the book " Al-Burhān fī Tafsīr al-Quran, widely utilized by researchers, has been accused of supporting distortion because it includes narrations related to textual alteration. These narrations are divided into different groups, each deserving detailed analysis. This study deals with one of these groups that, at first glance, seems to imply changes to the Quranic text. However, further consideration and a holistic review of related narrations reveal a different result. Accordingly, there is a kind of inconsistency among the hadiths referring to different revelation of the Quran. It suggests that these narrations don't relate to the distortion of the Quranic text. Given such contradiction within these narrations, it is unacceptable that they imply the manner of revealing the Quran. 

Keywords

• Distortion
• Quran
• Al-Burḥān fī Tafsīr al-Quran
• Contradiction of distortion-related narrations

Main Subjects

• Quran and Hadith Studies

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