Investigating Historiography in the Interpretive Traditions of Ahl al-Bayt (as) and Methodical Hermeneutics

The issue of historicity of Qur’an gained so much support that some deconstructive ideas were raised about Qur’an and the Holy Book was even called a man-made text. In studying the interpretational words of the Ahl al-Bayt (as), one can see that enough attention has been given to the issue of historicity so that it can be reconsidered as one of the interpretational principles with roots in the words and deeds of Ahl al-Bayt (as). The current research defines historicity before it uses a descriptive-analytical approach to distinguish between text historicity and understanding historicity in the view of hermeneutists. Then based on what has been said in the words of Ahl al-Bayt (as) about historical approach in understanding the text of the Qur’an, the history of people, history of conditions of revelation and the history of the environment in which Qur’an was revealed can be distinguished. The research then concludes that the Ahl al-Bayt’s way of dealing with historicity was focused on the understanding historicity of the Qur’an and not the text historicity of Holy Book. Making a reference to the words of Ahl al-Bayt (as) which indicate that understanding of Qur’an is beyond the history, the research seeks to further explain and elucidate that view.