A Comparative Study of the Interpretation of Prophet Jesus' Verses Based on the Interpretation of Judge Numan and Al-Bahrani

Abstract

The Book of Basis of Interpretation by Judge Numan is one of the most important Ismaili books that expresses its interpretative views on many verses. This study seeks to answer the important question of how do Judges Numan's interpretations coincide with the narrations of Allameh al-Bahrani in relation to the verses of Jesus (A.s)? This research is the documentary-analytical method and seeks to analyze the verses concerning Jesus (PBUH) in two books: The Basis of Interpretation and "Al-Burhan in the Interpretation of the Qur'an", the aspects of these two views being shared and differentiated. Explain and, through it, examine and criticize Judge Numan's intellectual foundations. The findings of this research show that Judge Numan, in his commentary and especially in his interpretations, has used his mental aptitudes more than he has expressed in a humorous way, except in very rare cases that he has not used the Ahlul-Bayt (A.S) narrations. Is and does not refer to its sources of interpretation. But an evaluation of the traditions in the book of Alburhan shows that more than half of all traditions are weak and less than a quarter of the relevant traditions are reliable. In this way, the narrations that Numan quotes from Alburhan cannot be cited. Despite Judge Numan's intellectual concessions to the issue of interpretation, there are serious drawbacks and ambiguities in his view that we will examine and critique in this article.