Ibn Kathir
أبو الفداء إسماعيل بن عمر بن كثير الدمشقي
al-Ḥāfiẓ
Abū al-Fidāʾ Ismāʿīl ibn ʿUmar ibn Kathīr al-Dimashqī
- Birthplace
- Bosra, Syria
- Madhhab
- Shāfiʿī
- Reference
- Wikipedia ↗
Monumental history Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah, the world's most widely read Qurʾanic commentary, and the classical Stories of the Prophets.
A student of Ibn Taymiyyah, Ibn Kathir combined the hadith sciences with historical scholarship to produce works of enduring reference. His Stories of the Prophets extracts the prophetic narratives from his larger history into a single, readable narrative that has shaped Muslim imagination for centuries.
- Tafsīr al-Qurʾān al-ʿAẓīm (Ibn Kathir's Tafsir)
- Al-Bidāyah wa al-Nihāyah (The Beginning and the End)
- Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyāʾ (Stories of the Prophets)
- Al-Sīrah al-Nabawiyyah (The Prophetic Biography)
Ibn Kathir's tafsir is the most reproduced in Sunni Islam, translated into every major language. His histories are still the entry point for anyone reading the classical record of the prophets, the Prophet ﷺ, and the centuries after.
