Tafsir al-Qummi

The , also known as , is a Shia Muslim commentary on the Quran by Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi, a Shia jurist and hadith transmitter who was a companion of Ali al-Hadi and Hasan al-Askari.
The commentary is generally based on the method of quoting hadiths from the Imams to explain the meanings of Quranic verses. Most of these hadiths were transmitted by al-Qummi's father, Ibrahim ibn Hashim al-Qummi, who was a companion of Muhammad al-Jawad.

Structure

The comprises at least two different s that have been combined: one by Ali ibn Ibrahim al-Qummi himself, and the other by Abu al-Jarud Ziyad ibn al-Mundhir, a companion of the fifth Imam Muhammad al-Baqir who later became the eponymous founder of the Jarudiyya. Abu al-Jarud's had been appended to the first by the latter's first transmitter, Abu al-Fadl al-Abbas ibn Muhammad.