Hashiyat Sa'di Afandi 'ala Tafsir al-Baydawi li Sa‘d Allah ibn 'Isa Ibn Amir Khan al-Shahir bi Sa'di Jalabi, d. 945H: Tahqiqan wa dirasat (Surat Yusuf min raqm al-ayah (23) ila raqm al-ayah (35)

[Saadi Effendi’s Footnote on the Interpretation of al-Baidawi: Study and Investigation Surat Yusuf from the Verse Number (23) to (35)]

Abstract

This study investigates the interpretation of Surah Yousuf from the verse number-23 to the verse number-35 from the manuscript “Saadi Effendi’s Footnote on the Interpretation of al-Baidawi: Study and Investigation”, who is one of the great scholars of Interpretation of the Quran. He is an interpreter, jurist, philosopher, and linguist. The author ‘Saadi Effendi’ exposed the cover from the unclear concepts of al-Baidawi in his interpretation and added very short definitions of the surahs, the meanings of the verses from the reliable books of interpretation, the verses related to juristic and creedal issues related to the verses, and the types of common and unusual readings of the verses. The methods used in this study are: keeping the Tafsir al-Baidawi in the above of the page, then followed by the explanation of Saadi Effendi, and the process of investigation is in the footnotes; trusting on the three copies of manuscript and Interpretation of Talaat (380) is reserved as an original copy with strengthening it by matching with other two copies such Interpretation of Taimur (514) and Interpretation of Talaat (449) including the proof of differences and completing the shortage in his explanation; copying the manuscript according to the modern orthographic writing system with controlling the formation; attributing the Qur’anic verses to their Surahs including their numbers with writing them following the font of “Mushaf al-Madinah al-Nabawiyyah”; authenticating the sayings and various opinion of the scholars from their original sources if possible, otherwise from the secondary sources; and remarking on the issues contained in the manuscript while it is needed. The most important findings of this study are: Saadi Effendi is counted as a big scholar in Interpretation of Quran and he is from those who spent their lifetime efforts to distribute knowledge towards people who wants to learn; his book “Saadi Effendi’s Footnote on the Interpretation of al-Baidawi” is calculated as a most significant explanation book of ‘Tafsir al-Baidawi’; Saadi Effendi has followed uncommon methods to write this book; and the verses of Surat Yousuf from the verse number-23 to the verse number-35 has briefed about the History of Yousuf (PBUH) and Julaykha as well as the news spread among the women of the city and her conspiracy against them.