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Associate Professor at “The Qur’anic Studies Department” in Research Institute for Islamic Culture and Thought (iict).
2
Student of 4th level of Interpretation of Qom Seminary, Qom, Iran
Abstract
According to certain evidence, the coming down gradually of the verses of the Holy Quran is obvious. Knowing the order in which the verses were come down has an effect on discovering the God’s intention. The role of Qur'anic verses and continuous or discontinuous cultural and social evidences in discovering God's serious intentions has always been emphasized. This appeared mostly in the form of distinguishing between Meccan and Madani verses and distinguishing exceptional verses; But commentators have also paid attention to order the coming down of verses. Hadiths have also been recorded about knowing sequence the coming down of verses, and the majority of Quranic commentators and scholars have relied on these hadiths and reports. But most orientalists and a number of Muslim commentators have relied on ijtihad and have stated criteria worthy of consideration in this regard. This article aims to strengthen the way of Muslim commentators and briefly evaluate the views of orientalists towards them. The research method of this article is descriptive and analytical and based on ijtihad in hadiths and historical sources, which has resulted in the preparation of a reliable table of the path of authenticating historical hadiths and reports and a selection from among them; In this way, after collecting all the tables and by applying the methods of hadith studies and finding the tables of Sahih al-Sandah and reflecting on context the coming down of the verses and their content, we can obtain a reliable foundation of order the coming down of the verses and strengthened the view of the Muslim commentators.
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