Stages of writing down Interpretation

(The Companions’ commentary on interpretation)

Abstract

  The Companions are considered to be in the first class of diligent interpreters after the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, because they witnessed the revelation and knew its conditions and the conditions of those to whom the Qur’an was revealed, and they knew the people of the tongue in which the Qur’an was revealed, and because of their good understanding and sound intentions. The majority of scholars are of the view that the Companion’s interpretation has the ruling of a marfu’ case if it is related to the reasons for the revelation, and everything in which there is no room for opinion. As for what there is room for opinion, it is subject to suspension as long as he did not attribute it to the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. Sources of interpretation of the Companions: the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the sayings of the Companions, language, and ijtihad. A companion is someone who met the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace, as a believer and died in that state. Al-Tabi’i: someone who met the Companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace. Among their commentators, it is added: and he took knowledge from them. The number of companions from whom explanatory narrations were reported is (100) (95 of them) whose narrations had not been collected before. (5) Collect their interpretation from before. (229) supported books on various sciences in all narrations. “Interpretation of the Qur’an according to the sayings of the Companions” An explanation of the meanings of the Qur’an according to the sayings of the Companions. Interpretation progressed through the stage of interpretation of the Companions. The books written in it followed this approach. The third source of interpretation in the first era is ijtihad and the power of deduction among the Companions. We shed light on the Companions who were famous for interpreting the Qur’an. And a general definition of each of them. The meaning of the arts of interpretation: everyone intends to understand the meaning of the Qur’an.