among factors causing disagreement of shiites and sunnis is commentatorial   hadiths. such hadiths are of great significance in the process of understanding as well as commenting on the quran–and even inferring juristic precepts. hence, attitude of muslims towards such   hadiths play a significant role in the process of formation of their beliefs and inferring islamic precepts. attitude of sunn...

the household of the prophet (a) have played a significant role in explaining and interpreting the verses of qur'an. in addition to shia interpreters, sunni interpreters too have benefited much from these interpretations. they mostly refer to the virtues and the high status of the household (a) in their interpretations that show the elevated position of ahl al-bayt (as) in the interpretati...

sura al-insan (76) is among suras sent down to praise imam ali and the household of the holy prophet. numerous hadiths, opinions, and sources denote that. however, some sunni sources have ignored that because of treating that sura as being maccan. relying on sunni sources, gathering hadiths and opinions on chronological order of descend of meccan and medinan suras, and hadiths concerning causes...

Abū Isḥāq Tha‘labī Nayshābūrī is an outstanding Iranian exegete of the fourth and fifth centuries LH. Tha‘labī has been so skillful in various Islamic sciences such as Arabic linguistics (including morphology, syntax (grammatical inflection), vocabulary, and rhetoric), Ḥadīth, exegesis, and qur’ānic sciences that numerous students from many near and far places attended his classes. Tha‘labī’s c...

one of ahl al-bayt’s methods of interpretation is the intratextual interpretation or the qur’an to qur’an commentary. this method which is based on the interaction and dialogue between the qur’anic verses, is reflected, to a huge extent, in those narratives of ahl al-bayt regarding qur’anic interpretation. the investigation of these narratives, not only leads to the derivation of ahl al-bayt’s ...

the imams of ahl al-bayt (‘a) have applied three methods in dealing with rulers as follows: taqiyyah (assimilation), armed struggle, and occultation. they have applied taqiyyah for keeping the unity among muslims and their followers. this does not mean that they have kept silent and did not care about muslims, rather they had active role in social life. an example of this active role is the ima...