Abstract:

Shia is one of the first sects emerged due to the differentiation of aqidah (creed) in Islam. Imamiyyah is a branch of Shia states that imamah must belong to Ali and his descendents. The followers of this sect have commentaries which supports their sectarian views in their tafseers. One of the well-known Shia scholar Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummi is a follower of Imamiyyah. The mufassir draws attention with his esoteric commentaries in his tafseer which is the resource for the following tafseers. al-Qummi's giving place to the narratives of Ali and Ahl Al-Bayt when he comments on the Stories of the Prophets before Prophet Muhammad is important to show his sectarian dimension. Anecdotes from the life of the Prophet are widely mentioned in the Quran. Yet, when these are treated in tefsaars, it appears that stories that are not originally present in the verses are also related. This article aims to analyze how extant anecdotes of prophets’ lifes are treated in Shea tafseer. After a brief explanation on the Shia tafseer’s interpretation tradition, the study will be focused on the anecdotes that deal with Muhammed and Ahl Al-Bayt that appear in Ali b. Ibrahim al-Qummitafseer, a reference of the first period of Shea tafseer. It is well known that shea’s tefsaars are full of interpretations that concord with the cult of the shea sect. Many verses of shea tafseer are associated to Ahl Al-Bayt as they do when mentioning about Ali’s caliphate or the negative attitude sonsof Umeyye toward Ahl Al-Bayt. The fact that Qummi presents Ali and imams in anecdotes that deal with Abraham, Moses and Joseph who lived ages before them can constitute a good illustration to our point.

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