ABOUT TABARANI'S TAFSIR: The Problem of the Attribution of Al-Tafsir Al-Kabir to Al-Tabarani

Based on the reference inscribed on it, a manuscript found in the National and University Library of Strasbourg published in Jordan under the name of Al-Tafsir al-Kabir: Tafsir Al-Qur'an Al-Azim has been attributed to the famous muhaddith Abu'l-Qasim Al-Tabarani (360/971). The manuscript in question is actually Hanafi faqih Abu Bakr Al-Haddad's (800/1398) well known and printed as Tafsir Al-Haddad, tafsir named Kashf al-tanzil fi tahqiq al-mabahith wa-al-ta'wil. The copy of the tafsir present in Strasbourg is one of the three existing copies used during the impression of Tafsir Al-Haddad. Consequently, the copy used for Haddad's tafsir and Tabarani's tafsir is the same. This article will deal with the attribution of the author of Al-Tafsir Al-Kabir. In this context, the book will be compared with the tafsir copy present in Strasbourg and Abu Bakr Al-Haddad's tafsir. Besides, a detailed study of the sources, method and content of Al-Tafsir Al-Kabir will be realized. The quotations in the book of the work of mufassir's who have lived after Tabarani will be shown. Moreover, we will indicate the impossibility to attribute the book to Tabarani proposing.