What is not here

The named absencesجو تفاسیر شامل نہیں

The Register asks you whether the selection of works is balanced, and until now gave you nothing to answer it with. This is the answer we owed you: the works of standing that are not here, and what each omission costs a reader. Compiled against the 295 works catalogued in Wikipedia’s List of tafsir works.رجسٹر آپ سے پوچھتا ہے کہ تفاسیر کا انتخاب متوازن ہے یا نہیں، اور اب تک اِس کا جواب دینے کے لیے آپ کو کچھ دیا نہیں گیا تھا۔ یہ وہ جواب ہے جو ہم پر واجب تھا: وہ معتبر تفاسیر جو یہاں نہیں ہیں، اور ہر کمی قاری کو کیا نقصان دیتی ہے۔ یہ فہرست ویکیپیڈیا کے دو سو پچانوے تفاسیر کے اندراج کے مقابل تیار کی گئی ہے۔

Two things found before the list was even compiledفہرست بنانے سے پہلے ہی دو باتیں سامنے آئیں

1. Thirty-seven editions are twenty-nine works. Eight are a second or third rendering of a text already counted — Ibn Kathīr appears three times, in Arabic, Urdu and English. They are three texts and they can differ, which is why they are listed separately. But they are one voice. Any sentence of the form “N commentaries agree” is inflated by that difference unless it is stated, and until now it was not stated.۱۔ سینتیس ایڈیشن دراصل اُنتیس تفاسیر ہیں۔ آٹھ وہ ہیں جو پہلے سے شمار شدہ کتاب کا دوسرا یا تیسرا ترجمہ ہیں — ابنِ کثیر تین بار آتی ہے، عربی، اردو اور انگریزی میں۔ یہ تین متون ہیں اور اِن میں فرق ہو سکتا ہے، اِسی لیے الگ درج ہیں۔ مگر یہ ایک ہی آواز ہیں۔ “اتنی تفاسیر متفق ہیں” جیسا کوئی بھی جملہ اِس فرق کے بغیر مبالغہ ہے، اور اب تک یہ فرق بیان نہیں کیا گیا تھا۔

2. Four traditions have no representative at all. Zero Zaydī. Zero Ibāḍī. Zero Ṣūfī. Zero Ismāʿīlī. This project has been describing itself as covering “both traditions”, as though there were two. There are not two. That phrasing is being corrected everywhere it appears.۲۔ چار روایات کا کوئی نمائندہ سرے سے موجود نہیں۔ زیدی صفر۔ اباضی صفر۔ صوفی صفر۔ اسماعیلی صفر۔ یہ منصوبہ خود کو “دونوں روایات” کا احاطہ کرنے والا کہتا رہا ہے، گویا دو ہی ہوں۔ دو نہیں ہیں۔ یہ الفاظ جہاں جہاں آئے ہیں، درست کیے جا رہے ہیں۔

37editions in the register

29distinct works

8are re-renderings

29named absences below

4traditions at zero

295works in the reference list

Whole traditions with no representative at all — 4پوری روایات جن کا کوئی نمائندہ موجود نہیں

Work	Author	Died	Tradition	What its absence costs
Zaydī tafsīr	Badr al-Dīn al-Ḥūthī, al-Dāʿī al-Naṣir al-Daylamī, and others	—	Zaydī	A living school with its own exegesis. Nothing here represents it, so a reading that says 'the commentaries agree' has not consulted it once.
Ibāḍī tafsīr	Hūd b. Muḥakkam al-Hawwārī (3rd/9th c.), Aṭfayyish (d. 1914), al-Khalīlī	—	Ibāḍī	The Ibāḍī tradition of Oman and North Africa has continuous tafsīr from the 3rd century AH to today. Zero works, so zero visibility.
Ṣūfī tafsīr	al-Tustarī (d. 283), al-Sulamī (d. 412), al-Qushayrī, Ibn ʿAjība, Ismāʿīl Ḥaqqī	—	Ṣūfī	An entire mode of reading — ishārī, the interior sense — with a canon a thousand years deep. Its absence does not merely thin the count: it removes a whole way of understanding an āyah, and no reader is told.
Ismāʿīlī tafsīr	the Ṭayyibī and Nizārī taʾwīl traditions	—	Ismāʿīlī	Absent entirely. Named here for completeness rather than because a digitised corpus was passed over.

Sunnī Arabic works of the first rank — 13اوّل درجے کی سنی عربی تفاسیر

Work	Author	Died	Tradition	What its absence costs
Anwār al-tanzīl	al-Bayḍāwī	d. 685 / 1286	Sunnī / Shāfiʿī	The standard madrasa commentary of the eastern Islamic world for six centuries. Arguably the single most-taught tafsīr in history, and not here.
al-Durr al-manthūr	al-Suyūṭī	d. 911 / 1505	Sunnī / Shāfiʿī	The great compendium of transmitted exegesis. On any āyah where the question is 'what did the earliest generations say', this is the book.
Rūḥ al-maʿānī	al-Ālūsī	d. 1270 / 1854	Sunnī / Ḥanafī	The last of the great encyclopaedic commentaries, and the one that gathers the preceding tradition before the modern period breaks with it.
Fatḥ al-qadīr	al-Shawkānī	d. 1250 / 1834	Sunnī / independent	Combines transmitted and reasoned exegesis, and is the reference point for much modern Salafī reading. Its absence skews the modern end.
al-Muḥarrar al-wajīz	Ibn ʿAṭiyya	d. 541 / 1147	Sunnī / Mālikī	The Andalusian counterweight to al-Ṭabarī, and a main source for al-Qurṭubī, who IS here. We have the debtor and not the creditor.
al-Baḥr al-muḥīṭ	Abū Ḥayyān al-Gharnāṭī	d. 745 / 1344	Sunnī / Ẓāhirī	The major grammatical commentary. Where a reading turns on syntax, this is the work that settles it.
Zād al-masīr	Ibn al-Jawzī	d. 597 / 1201	Sunnī / Ḥanbalī	Compact, and unusually explicit about the range of opinion on an āyah — which is precisely what a project measuring agreement should consult.
al-Kashf wa'l-bayān	al-Thaʿlabī	d. 427 / 1035	Sunnī / Shāfiʿī	A principal early source that later works quote constantly, including several that are here.
al-Nukat wa'l-ʿuyūn	al-Māwardī	d. 450 / 1058	Sunnī / Shāfiʿī	Enumerates the positions on each āyah rather than choosing among them.
Madārik al-tanzīl	al-Nasafī	d. 710 / 1310	Sunnī / Ḥanafī	The standard Ḥanafī teaching text. The Ḥanafī school is the largest by population and is represented here only indirectly.
Irshād al-ʿaql al-salīm	Abū al-Suʿūd (Ebussuud)	d. 982 / 1574	Sunnī / Ḥanafī	The Ottoman state commentary — the official reading of the largest Muslim polity for centuries.
Tafsīr Muqātil b. Sulaymān	Muqātil b. Sulaymān	d. 150 / 767	early	The earliest surviving complete tafsīr. Everything here begins after it.
Maʿānī al-Qurʾān	al-Farrāʾ	d. 207 / 822	early / Kūfan grammar	The foundational grammatical reading, and the root of a whole method.

Legal tafsīr — āyāt al-aḥkām — 3آیاتِ احکام کی تفاسیر

Work	Author	Died	Tradition	What its absence costs
Aḥkām al-Qurʾān	al-Jaṣṣāṣ	d. 370 / 981	Ḥanafī	On a legal āyah the reading turns on the school's own treatment, and the Ḥanafī one is not here.
Aḥkām al-Qurʾān	Ibn al-ʿArabī	d. 543 / 1148	Mālikī	The Mālikī counterpart, likewise absent.
Fiqh al-Qurʾān	Quṭb al-Dīn al-Rāwandī	d. 573 / 1177	Shīʿī / Imāmī	And the Imāmī counterpart. So on exactly the āyāt where limits matter most — 4:34, 5:33, 24:2 — the three books written to handle them are all missing, and only general commentaries are speaking.

Shīʿī works absent despite eight being present — 5شیعہ تفاسیر جو موجود نہیں، حالانکہ آٹھ شامل ہیں

Work	Author	Died	Tradition	What its absence costs
al-Burhān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān	Hāshim al-Baḥrānī	d. 1107 / 1696	Shīʿī / Imāmī	The major Akhbārī collection of Imāmī transmitted exegesis.
Tafsīr Furāt al-Kūfī	Furāt b. Ibrāhīm al-Kūfī	d. c. 352 / 964	Shīʿī / Imāmī	Among the earliest Imāmī commentaries, contemporary with al-Qummī, who is here.
al-Bayān fī tafsīr al-Qurʾān	Abū al-Qāsim al-Khūʾī	d. 1413 / 1992	Shīʿī / Imāmī	The most influential modern Imāmī work on Qurʾānic method.
Rawḍ al-jinān	Abū al-Futūḥ al-Rāzī	d. c. 525 / 1131	Shīʿī / Imāmī	The major Persian-language Imāmī commentary.
al-Amthal / Tafsīr Nemūneh	Nāṣir Makārim Shīrāzī	b. 1927	Shīʿī / Imāmī	The most widely read contemporary Shīʿī commentary in Persian and Urdu.

Whole language traditions with no work at all — 4پوری لسانی روایات جن کی کوئی تفسیر شامل نہیں

Work	Author	Died	Tradition	What its absence costs
Persian	Maybudī's Kashf al-asrār, Abū al-Futūḥ, Tafsīr Nemūneh and dozens more	—	—	Twelve centuries of Persian exegesis. Not one work.
Turkish	Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır, Said Nursî's Risale-i Nur	—	—	The commentaries that shaped Anatolian Islam. None.
Indonesian and Malay	Hamka's Tafsir al-Azhar, Quraish Shihab's al-Mishbah	—	—	The largest Muslim population on earth, and no commentary from it.
Bengali	Tafsir Zakaria and others	—	—	Third-largest Muslim population. None.

What we are asking you to do with thisاِس کے ساتھ ہم آپ سے کیا چاہتے ہیں

This list was compiled by us, which is exactly its weakness — the same judgement that missed these in the first place drew it up. Add to it, and cross out what does not belong. The single most useful reply is a work whose omission would change a specific reading, with the āyah number. That converts a general worry about balance into something we can fix and then prove we fixed.یہ فہرست ہم نے خود بنائی ہے، اور یہی اِس کی کمزوری ہے — وہی رائے جس نے پہلے اِنہیں نظرانداز کیا، اُسی نے یہ فہرست بنائی۔ اِس میں اضافہ کیجیے، اور جو غیر ضروری ہو اُسے کاٹ دیجیے۔ سب سے مفید جواب وہ تفسیر ہے جس کی غیر موجودگی کسی مخصوص مفہوم کو بدل دے، آیت کے نمبر کے ساتھ۔ اِس طرح توازن کی مبہم فکر ایسی چیز بن جاتی ہے جسے ہم درست کر سکیں اور پھر ثابت کر سکیں کہ درست کیا۔

One limit on this page, stated rather than hidden. altafsir.com — the largest collection, 110 or more works — returns 403 to automated fetch, so it is cited here for its size but was not machine-compared. This list is therefore a floor, not a ceiling. The true number of significant absences is higher than what you see below.اِس صفحے کی ایک حد، جو چھپائی نہیں گئی۔ altafsir.com — سب سے بڑا ذخیرہ، ایک سو دس یا زائد تفاسیر — خودکار رسائی پر 403 دیتا ہے، اِس لیے اُس کا حوالہ اُس کے حجم کے لیے دیا گیا ہے مگر مشینی موازنہ نہیں ہو سکا۔ لہٰذا یہ فہرست کم سے کم ہے، زیادہ سے زیادہ نہیں۔ اہم غیر موجود تفاسیر کی اصل تعداد اِس سے زیادہ ہے۔

All 114 surahs Why this exists The 37 editions we do have Method and known limits