Question:

Assalaamu’alaikum Sheikh Sajid, please share books that an advanced student can use to better understand the tafseer book alKash-Shaaf of Imam azZamakhsahri. Jazakallah Khair.

Answer:

باسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله وعلى آله وأصحابه ومن والاه

Wa’alaykum Salaam dear brother. May Allah bless you and increase your knowledge. Ameen.

Kash-shaaf is definitely a book of tafseer that fits in the advanced range of tafseer books and a book that some researchers and advanced students, if not many, have difficulty taking a deep understanding from given the intensity showcased by the author when presenting his explanations.

There are two books which I would refer to, as advised by my teachers, in order to learn the deeper meanings of alKash-shaaf, and they are;

1. atTahreer watTanweer of the famous later scholar Taahir ibn Aashoor (May Allah shower his mercy upon him), and,

2. The Tafseer book of a well-known later scholar, Abu asSa’ood, which is known as Irshaad alAql asSaleem.

And Allah Almighty knows best.

your brother,
Sajid Umar

Riyadh, KSA
20/04/2016

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