as-Suddī

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Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd ar-Rahmān as-Suddī ( Arabic اسماعيل بن عبد الرحمان السدي, DMG Ismāʿīl ibn ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān as-Suddī ; † 745 ) was a popular preacher and Koran exegete in Kufa , whose interpretations and explanations are mainly known from the Koran commentary by at-Tabarī , in which they are quoted in detail.

As-Suddī came from the Hejaz and was a client of a certain Zainab bint Qais ibn Machrama. He is said to have received his Nisba as-Suddī because he used to sit on the threshold ( sudda ) of the great mosque of Kufa during his teaching sessions . He was also considered an expert on Siyar and Maghāzī , but his traditions were criticized because he copied them from books of his teachers without having read them out, as was otherwise the norm in the teaching business at that time. At the political level, he was said to have sympathy for the Shia and abusive behavior towards Abū Bakr and Umar ibn al-Chattab .

As-Suddīs extensive commentary on the Koran , which has not survived independently, but was frequently used in numerous later commentaries such as that of at-Tabarī, has been reconstructed on the basis of later quotations in 1993 by Muḥammad ʿAṭā Yūsuf.

literature

  • GHA Juynboll: Art. "Al-Suddī" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. IX, p. 762a.
  • Fuat Sezgin : History of Arabic Literature. 1. Volume: Qur'ānwissenschaften, Hadīṯ, Geschichte, Fiqh, Dogmatik, Mystik up to approx. 430 H. Leiden 1967, pp. 32–33.
  • Muḥammad ʿAṭā Yūsuf: Tafsīr as-Suddī al-kabīr . Dār al-Wafāʾ, Al-Manṣūra, 1993.