Journal of Razavi Culture

Abstract Debate with different scholars and scientists is one of the characteristics of the era of Imam Riḍā (as) that he answered their questions in different ways and citing sources accepted by both parties and proved the legitimacy of Islam or Shiite beliefs. One of the debates of that Imam is related to explaining the supreme virtue of Imam Ali (AS) in the verses of the Quran, in which the Imam, based on the verse of Mubāhilah (Āl-ʿImrān, 61), answered Maʾmūn's questions and forced him to submit to the correct argument. This study has analyzed it with the help of library sources and after reviewing various texts quoted from the debate between Maʾmūn and Imam Riḍā (as) about the verse of Mubahila, and it wants to answer these questions: in what sources is this debate mentioned and what is the most correct narration of it? What are the principles of the Imam in the debate and what theoretical and practical points can be obtained from the analysis of the text of the debate? The findings of the research show that Imam Ali ibn Mūsá al-Riḍā (as) in this debate, considering the continuous verbal evidence (words and words of the verse), continuous non-verbal evidence (historical story of Mubahila) and the use of prophetic narrations on the subject, expressed the greatest Qurʾanic virtue of Imam Ali (as) to be the soul of that Imam as the soul of the Prophet (pbuh) in the verse of Mubahila, and then he answered the doubts.

Abstract The interpretation of the verses of the Holy Qur'an with the help of narrations, especially the hadiths of the Ahl al-Bayt (as), has a history as old as the Qur'an, and the commentators of the two sects have mentioned some interpretive narrations to explain the teachings of the Qur'an. Therefore, it is important to study the narrations narrated by Sunni scholars in order to bring the views closer and to express the points of commonality and difference; among the commentators who have cited the narrations of the Ahl al-Bayt (as) is Seyed Mohammad Ālūsī, one of the thirteenth-century Salafī scholars in his Tafsīr Rūḥ al-Ma'anī fi Tafsīr al-Qur’an al-‘Aẓīm. The present study comparatively examines the narrations narrated from Imam Riḍā (as) in this Tafsīr; therefore, by briefly introducing the interpretation of Rūḥ al-Ma'anī and its author, it expresses his various interpretations of Imam Riḍā (as) and enumerates the sources used by him in these narrations. Then by examining the thirteen narrations of Raḍavi quoted in the above-mentioned Tafsīr and their authenticity and mentioning the sources of the mentioned narrations and commentary books of the sects, while briefly referring to the content of the narrations, it points out the possible mistakes of Ālūsī.