Praises be to Allah who created causality events and revealed the miraculous Holy Quran in which wisdom and good tidings are rewarded. Peace and salutation be upon Prophet Muhammad SAW, the noble human being amongst all. Exegesis is an exalted field of sciences which functions to decipher Quranic verses and clarify sharia sciences related thereto, it is infact often be seen as references to any other field of sciences. Hence, the early exegesis scholars had put enormous effort in order to decipher
the meaning of Quran and they bequeath tafseer to their future successors which contained compilations of hadith, the saying of His companion and tabi’in. Also, the scholars had made every effort to improve human comprehension of Quran. Among all the noted exegesis scholars was Ibnu Jarir Atthabary who wrote “Jami’al Bayan Ta’wil Al-Quran” which used distinctive method to decipher Quran. For instance, when interpreting Quranic verses, he said, “the following is the Quranic interpretation…”, and he vowed that the tafseer are results of sanad up to a Prophet’s companion or Successors, which called tafseer bilma’sur. Furthermore, when there were dispute about the meaning of Quranic Verses, he quoted various opinions, sanad, and references. Then, he would explain the most acceptable argumentation amongst all, viewed them semantically if needed, and also vowed likewise