Abbreviation |
Reference |
Type of Work |
Abd al-Razzaq |
ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Karīm (often attributed to and called Tafsīr Ibn ʿArabī) |
Tafsīr |
Abdel Haleem |
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem, The Qurʾan (Oxford Press, 2005) |
Tarjumah |
Abu al-Futuh |
Abū al-Futūḥ al-Rāzī, Rawḍ al-Jinān wa Rawḥ al-Janān |
Tafsīr |
Abu Dawud |
Abū Dāwūd, Sunan |
Ḥadīth |
Ahkam |
Ibn al-ʿArabī, Muḥammad ibn Abd-Allāh ibn Abī Bakr, Aḥkam al-Qurʾān |
Tafsir |
Ahmad |
Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal, Musnad |
Ḥadīth |
Ahsan al-Hadith |
ʿAlī Akbar Qurashī, Tafsīr Aḥsan al-Ḥadīth |
Tafsīr |
Alusi |
Ālūsī, Rūḥ al-Maʿānī |
Tafsīr |
Amali.M |
Mufīd, Amālī |
Ḥadīth |
Amali.S |
Ṣadūq, Amālī |
Ḥadīth |
Amali.T |
Ṭūsī, Amālī |
Ḥadīth |
Amthal |
Makārim Shīrāzī, al-Amthal fī Tafsīr Kitāb Allāh al-Munzal, Trans. Muḥammad ʿAlī Ādharshab |
Tafsīr |
Andulusi |
Ibn ʿAṭiyyah Andalusī, al-Muḥarrar al-Wajīz |
Tafsīr |
Arastah |
Ḥusayn Jawān Ārāsteh, Darsnāmeh-e ʿUlūm-e Qurʾān |
Other – ʿUlūm |
Arberry |
A J Arberry, The Koran Interpreted: A Translation |
Tarjumah |
Asad |
Muḥammad Asad, The Message of the Qurʾān |
Tarjumah |
Ayn |
Al-Farāhīdī, Kitāb al-ʿAyn |
Qāmūs |
Ayyashi |
ʿAyyāshī, Kitāb al-Tafsīr |
Tafsīr |
Baghawi |
Ḥusayn ibn Masʿūd al-Baghawī, Maʿālim al-Tanzīl |
Tafsīr |
Baghdadi |
Al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdādī, Tārīkh Madīnat al-Salām (23 vols.) |
Other – Tārīkh |
Bahrayn |
Al-Ṭurayḥī al-Najafī, Majmaʿ al-Baḥrayn |
Qāmūs |
Barqi |
Al-Barqī, Kitāb al-Maḥāsin |
Ḥadīth |
Basair |
Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan al-Ṣaffār, Baṣāʾīr al-Darajāt |
Tafsīr |
Baydawi |
Bayḍāwī, ʿAbd-Allāh ibn ʿUmar, Anwār al-Tanzīl wa Asrār al-Taʾwīl |
Tafsīr |
Bayhaqi |
Al-Bayhaqī, al-Sunan al-Kubrā |
Ḥadīth |
Bihar |
Majlisī, Biḥār al-Anwār |
Ḥadīth |
Brusawi |
Ḥaqqī al-Brūsawī, Rūḥ al-Bayān |
Tafsīr |
Bukhari |
Muḥammad ibn Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ |
Ḥadīth |
Burhan |
Sayyid Hāshim al-Baḥrānī, Tafsīr al-Burhān |
Tafsīr |
Daqaiq |
Muḥammad Riḍā al-Qummī al-Mashhadī, Kanz al-Daqāʾiq |
Tafsīr |
Darwish |
Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Darwīsh, Iʿrāb al-Qurʾān wa Bayānuhu |
Tafsīr |
Daylami |
Al-Daylamī, Irshād al-Qulūb |
Ḥadīth |
Dukhayyil |
Dukhayyil, al-Wajīz fī Tafsīr al-Kitāb al-ʿAzīz |
Tafsīr |
Fadlallah |
Faḍl-Allāh, Min Waḥy al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Faqih |
Ṣadūq, Man Lā Yaḥḍuruhu al-Faqīh |
Ḥadīth |
Faraid |
Hamawaynī, Farāʾid al-Simṭayn |
Ḥadīth |
Farhang |
Al-Bustānī, Farhang-e Abjadī, Trans. Mahyār |
Qāmūs |
Fayyumi |
Al-Fayyūmī, al-Miṣbāḥ al-Munīr |
Qāmūs |
Furat |
Furāt ibn Ibrāhīm al-Kūfī, Tafsir Furāt al-Kūfī |
Tafsīr |
Furqan |
Ṣādiq Tehrānī, al-Furqān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Gharaib |
Al-Nayshābūrī, Gharāʾib al-Qurʾān wa Raghāʾib al-Furqān |
Tafsīr |
Ghurar |
Āmudī, Ghurar al-Ḥikam |
Ḥadīth |
Gunabadi |
Gunābadī (al-Janābadhī), Tafsīr Bayān al-Saʿādah fī Maqāmāt al-ʿIbādah |
Tafsīr |
Hairi |
Ḥāʾirī Tehrānī, Muqtanayāt al-Durar |
Tafsīr |
Hans Wehr |
J M Cowan, The Hans Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic |
Qāmūs |
Hasakani |
Ibn Ḥaddād al-Ḥasakānī, Shawāhid al-Tanzīl |
Ḥadīth |
Haydar |
Sayyid Ḥaydar al-Āmulī, Tafsīr al-Muḥīṭ al-Aʿẓam |
Tafsīr |
Haythami |
Al-Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-Zawāʾid wa Manbaʿ al-Fawāʾid |
Ḥadīth |
Ibn Abbas |
Ibn ʿAbbās (or Muḥammad Fīrūzabādī), Tanwīr al-Miqbās min Tafsīr Ibn ʿAbbās |
Tafsīr |
Ibn Abi al-Hadid |
Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd, Sharḥ Nahj al-Balāghah |
Ḥadīth |
Ibn Abi Hatim |
Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm |
Tafsīr |
Ibn Ajibah |
Aḥmad bin ʿAjībah, Al-Baḥr al-Madīd fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Majīd |
Tafsīr |
Ibn al-Jawzi |
Ibn al-Jawzī, Zād al-Masīr fī ʿIlm al-Tafsīr |
Tafsīr |
Ibn Asakir |
Ibn ʿAsākir, Taʾrīkh Madīnat Dimashq |
Other |
Ibn Ashur |
Ibn ʿĀshūr, al-Taḥrīr wa al-Tanwīr |
Tafsīr |
Ibn Arabi |
Ibn ʿArabī, Tafsīr Ibn ʿArabī |
Tafsīr |
Ibn Kathir |
Ibn Kathīr, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Aẓīm |
Tafsīr |
Ibn Majah |
Ibn Mājah, Sunan |
Ḥadīth |
Ibn Sad |
Ibn Saʿd, Ṭabaqāt al-Kubrā |
Other |
Ihtijaj |
Ṭabarsī , al-Iḥtijāj[1] See footnotes for further explanation. |
Ḥadīth |
Ilal |
Ṣadūq, ʿIlal al-Sharāyiʿ |
Ḥadīth |
Iqbal |
Sayyid Ibn Ṭāwūs, Iqbāl al-Aʿmāl |
Other |
Istibsar |
Ṭūsī, al-Istibṣār |
Ḥadīth |
Ithna Ashari |
Shāh ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīmī, Tafsīr Ithnā ʿAsharī |
Tafsīr |
Jalalayn |
Al-Maḥallī, Jalāl al-Dīn & al-Suyūṭī, Jalāl al-Dīn, Tafsīr al-Jalālayn |
Tafsīr |
Jawhari |
Jawharī, Tāj al-Lughah wa Ṣiḥāḥ al-ʿArabiyyah |
Qāmūs |
Kafi |
Kulaynī, al-Kāfī |
Ḥadīth |
Kamal |
Ṣadūq, Kamāl al-Dīn |
Ḥadīth |
Kamil |
Ibn Qulawayh al-Qummī, Kāmil al-Ziyārāt |
Ḥadīth |
Kanz |
Muttaqī al-Hindī, Kanz al-ʿUmmāl |
Ḥadīth |
Kashif |
Mughniyyah, Tafsīr al-Kāshif |
Tafsīr |
Khatib |
Khaṭīb, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān lil-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Khisal |
Ṣadūq, Kitāb al-Khiṣāl |
Ḥadīth |
Lane |
Edward William Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon (1863) |
Qāmūs |
Lisan |
Ibn al-Manẓūr, Lisān al-ʿArab |
Qāmūs |
Lubab |
Baghdādī, Lubāb al-Taʾwīl |
Tafsīr |
Maani |
Ṣadūq, Maʿānī al-Akhbār |
Ḥadīth |
Maarif |
Mufti Muḥammad Shafiʿī, Maʿārif al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Mafahim |
Jaʿfar Subḥānī, Mafāhīm al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Makarim |
Ṭabrisī (Abū Naṣr), Makārim al-Akhlāq[2] See footnotes for further explanation. |
Ḥadīth |
Manaqib |
Ibn Shahr Āshūb, Manāqib ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (a) |
Ḥadīth |
Manar |
Muhammad Abduh / Rashīd Riḍā, Tafsīr al-Manār |
Tafsīr |
Maqayis |
Ibn Fāris ibn Zakariyyā, Muʿjam Maqāyīs al-Lughah |
Qāmūs |
Maraghi |
10/ |
Tafsīr |
Mardawayh |
Ibn Mardawayh, Manāqib ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib (a) |
Ḥadīth |
Maturidi |
Māturīdī, Tafsīr al-Māturīdī, Taʾwīlāt Ahl al-Sunnah |
Tafsīr |
Maududi |
Syed Abul Aʿlā Maududī, Tafhīm al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Maybudi |
Maybudī, Kashf al-Asrār wa ʿUddat al-Abrār (English Translation by Chittick) |
Tafsīr |
Mizan |
Ṭabāṭabāʾī, Tafsīr al-Mīzān |
Tafsīr |
Mubin |
Mughniyah, Tafsīr al-Mubīn |
Tafsīr |
Mudarrisi |
Muḥammad Taqī Mudarrisī, Min Hudā al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Mufid |
Al-Mufīd, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Majīd |
Tafsīr |
Muhit |
Abū Ḥayyān Gharnāṭī al-Andalusī, al-Baḥr al-Muḥīṭ |
Tafsīr |
Mumin |
Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Kūfī al-Aḥwāzī, Kitāb al-Muʾmin |
Ḥadīth |
Munjid |
Al-Munjid fī al-Lughah wa al-Aʿlām (Dār al-Mashriq, 23rd Edition, Beirut) |
Qāmūs |
Muslim |
Muslim ibn al-Ḥajjāj, Ṣaḥīḥ |
Ḥadīth |
Mustadrak.S |
Ḥākim al-Nayshābūrī, Mustadrak ʿalā al-Ṣaḥīḥayn |
Ḥadīth |
Mustadrak.W |
Nūrī Ṭabrisī, Mustadrak al-Wasāʾil |
Ḥadīth |
Mutahhari |
Shahīd Muṭahharī, Majmūʿah-e Āthār |
Other |
Muwatta |
Mālik ibn Anas, al-Muwaṭṭa’ |
Ḥadīth |
Nahj |
Raḍī, Nahj al-Balāghah |
Ḥadīth |
Nasai |
Al-Nasāʾī, Sunan al-Ṣughrā |
Ḥadīth |
Nasai.K |
Al-Nasāʾī, Sunan al-Kubrā |
Ḥadīth |
Nasr |
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, The Study Quran (2015, HarperCollins) |
Tafsīr |
Nawawi |
Al-Nawawī, Marāḥ Labīd |
Tafsīr |
Nemuneh |
Makārim Shīrāzī, Tafsīr-e Nemūneh |
Tafsīr |
Nihayah |
Ibn Athīr, al-Nihāyah fī Gharīb al-Ḥadīth wa al-Athar |
Qāmūs |
Nur |
Al-Ḥuwayzī, Tafsīr Nūr al-Thaqalayn |
Tafsīr |
Pickthall |
Muhammad (Marmaduke) Pickthall, The Glorious Qurʾān |
Tarjumah |
Qamus |
ʿAlī Akbar Qurashī, Qāmūs-e Qurʾān |
Qāmūs |
Qaraati |
Qarāʾatī, Tafsīr Nūr |
Tafsīr |
Qarai |
ʿAlī Qulī Qarāʾī, The Qurʾān with a Phrase-by-Phrase English Translation (ICAS Press, 2005) |
Tarjumah |
Qummi |
Qummī, Tafsīr |
Tafsīr |
Qurtubi |
Qurṭubī, Tafsīr |
Tafsīr |
Qutb |
Sayyid Quṭb, Fī Ẓilāl al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Raghib |
Al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī, Mufradāt Alfāẓ al-Qurʾān |
Qāmūs |
Rahmah |
Muḥyī al-Dīn Ibn ʿArabī, Raḥmah min al-Raḥmān fī Tafsīr wa Ishārāt al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Razi |
Fakhr ad-Dīn Rāzī, Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb |
Tafsīr |
Sabzawari |
Sabzawārī, al-Jadīd fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Majīd |
Tafsīr |
Sadra |
Mullā Ṣadrā, Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-Karīm |
Tafsīr |
Safi |
Mullā Muḥsin Fayḍ al-Kāshānī, Tafsīr al-Ṣāfī |
Tafsīr |
Sahifah |
Imam ʿAli ibn al-Ḥusayn (a), al-Ṣaḥīfah al-Sajjādiyyah |
Ḥadīth |
Samarqandi |
Samarqandī, Baḥr al-ʿUlūm (Tafsīr al-Samarqandī) |
Tafsīr |
Sarwar |
Muhammad Sarwar, The Holy Qurʾān: The Arabic Text and English Translation |
Tarjumah |
Shakir |
M H Shakir, The Qurʾān |
Tarjumah |
Shawkani |
Shawkānī, Fatḥ al-Qadīr |
Tafsīr |
Subhani.M |
Jaʿfar Subḥānī, Sayyid al-Mursalīn |
Other –Sīrah |
Suyuti |
Al-Suyūṭī, al-Durr al-Manthūr |
Tafsīr |
Tabarani |
Al-Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-Kabīr |
Ḥadīth |
Tabari |
Al-Ṭabarī, Jāmiʿ al-Bayān |
Tafsīr |
Tabrisi |
Al-Ṭabrisī, Majmaʿ al-Bayān[3] See footnotes for further explanation. |
Tafsīr |
Tabrisi.J |
Al-Ṭabrisī, Jawāmiʿ al-Jāmiʿ |
Tafsīr |
Tahdhib |
Ṭūsī, Tahdhīb al-Aḥkām |
Ḥadīth |
Tahqiq |
Ḥasan Muṣṭafawī, al-Taḥqīq fī Kalimāt al-Qurʾān |
Qāmūs |
Taj |
Al-Ḥusaynī Zabīdī, Tāj al-ʿArūs min Jawāhir al-Qāmūs |
Qāmūs |
Tamhid |
Muḥammad Hādī Maʿrifat, Al-Tamhīd fī ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān (10 vols.) – 2011 / 1432 AH |
Other – ʿUlūm |
Tantawi |
Al-Tafsīr al-Wasīṭ, Ṭanṭāwī |
Tafsīr |
Targhib |
ʿAbd al-ʿAẓīm al-Mundhirī, Al-Targhīb wa al-Tarhīb |
Ḥadīth |
Tawhid |
Ṣadūq, Kitāb al-Tawḥīd |
Ḥadīth |
Tawus |
Sayyid Ibn Ṭāwūs, Saʿd al-Suʿūd lil-Nufūs |
Tafsīr |
Thaalabi |
Thaʿālabī, Jawāhir al-Ḥisān |
Tafsīr |
Thalabi |
Thaʿlabī, al-Kashf wa al-Bayān |
Tafsīr |
Thawab |
Ṣadūq, Thawāb al-Aʿmāl |
Ḥadīth |
Tibyan |
Ṭūsī, al-Tibyān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān |
Tafsīr |
Tirmidhi |
Tirmidhī, Jāmiʿ |
Ḥadīth |
Tuhaf |
Ibn Shuʿbah al-Ḥarrānī, Tuḥaf al-ʿUqūl fī mā jāʾa min al-Ḥikam wa al-Mawāʿiẓ min Āl al-Rasūl |
Ḥadīth |
Tustari |
Sahl al-Tustarī, Tafsīr al-Tustarī |
Tafsīr |
Uddah |
Ibn Fahd al-Ḥillī, ʿUddat al-Dāʿī |
Ḥadīth |
Uyun |
Ṣadūq, ʿUyūn Akhbār al-Riḍā (a) |
Ḥadīth |
Wahidi |
Al-Wāḥidī al-Nayshābūrī, Asbāb al-Nuzūl |
Tafsīr |
Wasail |
Ḥurr al-ʿĀmilī, Wasāʾil al-Shīʿah |
Ḥadīth |
Yanabi |
Sulaymān al-Qundūzī al-Ḥanafī, Yanābīʿ al-Mawaddah |
Ḥadīth |
Yusufali |
Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qurʾān |
Tarjumah |
Zamakhshari |
Al-Zamakhsharī, Tafsīr al-Kashshāf |
Tafsīr |
Zubaydi |
Zubaydī, Tāj al-ʿArūs |
Tafsīr |
Zubdah |
Fatḥ-Allāh Kāshānī, Zubdat al-Tafāsīr |
Tafsīr |
Zuhd |
Ḥusayn b. Saʿīd al-Kūfī al-Aḥwāzī, Kitāb al-Zuhd |
Ḥadīth |