Exploring Controversial Women's Traditions in the Commentary of Verse 14 of Surh Ale-Emran

Commentators have a different performance in usage of traditions in interpreting of verse 14 of Surah Ale-Emran. Some of them mentioned the blaming traditions of women and others quoted the praise traditions. Blaming Traditions, introducing the women as string of Satan and instrument for sedition and temptation of men. Thus, these traditions recommend a limited relationship between men and women. In contrast, the praise traditions, drawing a positive approach to the woman and described it as the highest earthly pleasure and introducing the righteous woman as the best thing in the world. Prophetic traditions with the praise approach are in line with the necessity of enjoying of the blessings and worldly pleasures and the means to conceive them in order to attain the blessings and pleasures of the Hereafter, But the traditions of blaming, with an inappropriate portrayal of the woman, are in a deliberate approach and do not seem to fit the concept of the verse. Among the interpretations using traditions for interpreting of the verse 14, Exertional interpretations tend to be more pleasing to blaming traditions, but in the most of traditional interpretations, the enjoyment of this pleasure has been taken into account. This article is a descriptive study that examines the performance of commentators in using of traditions as main source for interpreting of the verse 14 of Surah Ale-Emran.