Interpretation Methodology of Ibn Mas'ud's Narratives in Tafsir Ibn Kathir

Examining the principles and rules of interpretation and the methodology of interpreters' interpretations is one of the approaches that has attracted the attention of Qur’an scholars. However, the methodology of the first interpreters of the Holy Qur’an has been less considered by Qur’an scholars. Since the narratives of the first interpreters of the Holy Qur’an are the foundation of the narrative interpretations of the Holy Qur’an, accuracy in the methodology of their narratives is a necessary. Tafsir Ibn Kathir Dameshghi is one of the great interpretations of the Sunnis which contains many narratives of the companions of the Holy Prophet. According to a rough study on Ibn Mas'ud's name in this interpretation, his name is repeated nearly 1600 times, and almost half of this repetition is dedicated to his interpretation narratives. Analyzing the interpretation narratives of this great companion of the Holy Prophet, as the founder of the Kufa school of interpretation, in the interpretation of Ibn Kathir, can show method and approach of Ibn Mas'ud in interpretation. Considering and analyzing Ibn Mas'ud's narratives in a descriptive-analytical method shows that the method of this interpreter is a comprehensive interpretation method that includes many aspects of the methods. He is like a lexical interpreter with a literary approach, a famous jurist with a jurisprudential approach, a historian familiar with history and its events, a scholar familiar with Quranic sciences as the later type of scientific method of interpreting the Holy Qur’an, a rationalist interpreter with a rational approach, and finally as an interpreter from the Ahl al-Bayt school, familiar with the general spirit of the verses of the Holy Qur'an, deals with the interpretation of the verses of the Qur'an in the shadow of other verses and interpretation narratives received from the Holy Prophet