Al-Burhan fi tafsir al-Qur'an (book): Difference between revisions

“This book will help you know about many secrets of the [[Qur'an]]. Some of the religious sciences, stories, life of prophets and the virtues of Ahl al-Bayt (a) will be clear for you by this book. … I have gathered valid and trustworthy hadiths from [[hadith collections]] whose compilers are from authentic scholars. I have narrated most of the hadiths from Shi'a transmitters but in the case that Sunni hadiths were in correspondence with Shi'a's or in the case that a hadith of Sunnis was about the virtues of Ahl al-Bayt (a), I used their hadith as well. I also mentioned some hadith from Ibn 'Abass in interpreting Qur'an because he was pupil of Imam 'Ali (a). “

His manner in this exegesis is that he mentions the name of the Sura, the place that it was revealed, virtue of the Sura and the number of the verses. Then he mentions the verses that have especial hadiths in explaining their content and discusses about those hadiths.

Al-'Allama al-Bahrani in al-Burhan sufficed to mention the hadiths and he wrote the chain of transmitters and the hadith of Sunnis at the end of each chapter.

He consider his book as a statement of the Ta'wil of the verses of the Qur'an and by Ta'wil, he means the hadiths that are narrated from infallibles and mentioned the virtue of them. He didn't add any comment on the hadiths but in his long introduction, he presented his views and analysis on the interpretational theories. There is another introduction for this book by Abu l-Hasan Sharif al-'Amili al-Isfahani (d. 1138 AH or 1140 AH) under the title Mirat al-anwar wa mishkat al-asrar.

Al-'Allama al-Bahrani presented his ideas on interpretation and Qur'anic quests in 16 chapters in introduction. He believed that the Qur'an exclusively should be interpreted by Imams (a). Even though that his notion of interpretation is close to Ta'wil, in the 6th chapter, he expressly prevented other people to interpret the Qur'an. In the 15th chapter, he stated some points on the unity of the Qur'an and 'Itrat. He also emphasized on the inward meaning of Qur'an and on the belief that its knowledge is in the hand of Ahl al-Bayt (a). In the last chapter, he mentioned some of the sources of the book and introduced some terms like Nasikh wa Mansukh, Muhkam wa Mutashabih, 'Am wa Khas, Taqdim wa Ta'khir but he didn't pose any definition about these terms. Thus, he begin to enter to the exegesis. The atmosphere of the book in proving the rightfulness of Ahl al-Bayt (a) and introducing the virtues of them.