Tafsir al-Jalalayn

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تفسير الجلالين

Tafsīr al-Jalālayn

Book

A short commentary on the whole Quran, written by two scholars both named Jalal al-Din.

What it means

Jalal al-Din al-Mahalli (d. 1459) began it from Surah al-Kahf to the end and his student Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti (d. 1505) completed it from al-Baqara to al-Isra. Its brevity, in about a line to a verse, has made it a first textbook of tafsir in Muslim schools.