| 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 |