Muqatil ibn sulayman
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Muqatil ibn Sulayman al-Balkhi (died 767 ) was a 8th-century Sunni mufassir of the Quran.
Ibn Sa'd's complete biography of Muqatil is "The one who had a tafsir, He related from al-Dahhak ibn Muzahim and Ata ibn Abi Rabah
, students of Ibn Abbas. Some of the people of hadith were wary of his hadith and objected to them," Ibn Sa'd descibes him as one of the Fuqaha' and Hadith Scholars in Khurasan and does not give him a date of death.
Imam al-Shafi'i declared that "People are all the children of Abu Hanifa in fiqh, of Ibn Ishaq
in history, of Imam Malik in hadith, and of Muqatil in tafsîr.
Muqatil is the alleged author of a tafsir (commentary) on the Quran that Wansbrough considers the oldest surviving complete tafsir and discusses in some detail . This work was still in manuscript when Wansbrough wrote but has since been published .
He also played some part in the Civil War during the Caliphate of Marwan ibn Muhammad
His views on divine anthropomorphism
were notorious to later generations, but in spite of his “extreme” corporealism, he employed ta'wil in his tafsir
even on verses on the attributes of Allah
believed by many to show the contradiction in his thought.
Ibn Sa'd's complete biography of Muqatil is "The one who had a tafsir, He related from al-Dahhak ibn Muzahim and Ata ibn Abi Rabah
Ata ibn Abi Rabah
Ata ibn Abi Rabah was a prominent Tabi'i, a Mufassir, Muhaddith , faqih and Mufti of Mecca. He was born in Yemen of Nubian parents and raised in Mecca as a client of the Abi Khuthaym family...
, students of Ibn Abbas. Some of the people of hadith were wary of his hadith and objected to them," Ibn Sa'd descibes him as one of the Fuqaha' and Hadith Scholars in Khurasan and does not give him a date of death.
Imam al-Shafi'i declared that "People are all the children of Abu Hanifa in fiqh, of Ibn Ishaq
Ibn Ishaq
Muḥammad ibn Isḥaq ibn Yasār ibn Khiyār was an Arab Muslim historian and hagiographer...
in history, of Imam Malik in hadith, and of Muqatil in tafsîr.
Muqatil is the alleged author of a tafsir (commentary) on the Quran that Wansbrough considers the oldest surviving complete tafsir and discusses in some detail . This work was still in manuscript when Wansbrough wrote but has since been published .
He also played some part in the Civil War during the Caliphate of Marwan ibn Muhammad
His views on divine anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism is any attribution of human characteristics to animals, non-living things, phenomena, material states, objects or abstract concepts, such as organizations, governments, spirits or deities. The term was coined in the mid 1700s...
were notorious to later generations, but in spite of his “extreme” corporealism, he employed ta'wil in his tafsir
Tafsir
Tafseer is the Arabic word for exegesis or commentary, usually of the Qur'an. Ta'wīl is a subset of tafsir and refers to esoteric or mystical interpretation. An author of tafsir is a mufassir .- Etymology :...
even on verses on the attributes of Allah
Allah
Allah is a word for God used in the context of Islam. In Arabic, the word means simply "God". It is used primarily by Muslims and Bahá'ís, and often, albeit not exclusively, used by Arabic-speaking Eastern Catholic Christians, Maltese Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox Christians, Mizrahi Jews and...
believed by many to show the contradiction in his thought.