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Mar 26, 2022 • 24 tweets • 12 min read
Thread: Tafsir Al-Tabari and the verse of the sun setting into a muddy spring (Q18:86)
Recently in a discussion between @ApostateProphet and @Farid_0v in regards to whether Q18:86 can mean that the sun literally sets into a spring in the west, Apostate prophet mentioned Al-Tabari as an example of it being literal.
Jun 22, 2021 • 30 tweets • 10 min read
This is my first Twitter 🧵 that I'm doing on Quranic variants. The first variant I'm looking at is from Q 24:27. This verse deals with believers entering a house. They can't do so until they "seek familiarity (tasta'nisu) and greet it's inhabitants"
However, it appears the earliest Muslims did not agree with the reading of Tasta'nisu. Many believed in Tasta'dhinu "seek permission". One such person as recorded in Bayhaqis Shuab Al-Iman was Ibn Abbas