An Investigative Research Review of Traditions Seizing from Tafsir ul Qur’an by Sir Syed Ahmed Khan

Abstract

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan was a versatile man who, perturbed about the future of the Muslims of sub- continent , had made struggles for the betterment of the sub-continental Muslims in every field. He made utmost efforts for enlightening muslims with the vistas of modern knowledge and mitigating the chasm between Islam and modern knowledge.He carried out several educational and pragmatic strides towards bringing the positive aspects of Islam and Islamic literature before the western world including a prominent milestone of " Tafseer Al-Quran" in which he tried to prove that Al-Quran is not averse to modern knowledge and answer the suspicions based on western philosophical thought vis a vis religious faith and theology through distinguish ways of exegesis in which Westernism and Mu'tazilatist school of thought seem to be prominent, deviating from the traditional methods of interpretation.On account of this, he tried to interpret Al-Quran on the basis of rational principles, making blips from muslims general belief. The purpose of this article is to exhibit the distinguished ways of author in "Tafseer Al-Quran" regarding derived narrations, take review of the takhreej of the narration methods ( Acceptance of narrations, Conjecturing,and Renouncing), and authenticity as well as methods of argumentation along with revealing the conjectured and renounced narrations in the light of Al-Quran, Ahadith and concrete arguments. In the end, the moot summary will be presented as the remaining part.