Analyzing and Examining the Opinions of Mufassirūn about “When (Jesus) the Son of Mary Is Held up as an Example (Arabic: ولما ضرب ابن مریم مثلا, Chapter or Sūrat Az-Zukhruf)”

Verse 57 of Sūrat Az-Zukhruf is a parable that has been mocked at and ridiculed by the polytheists and they dispute with the Prophet Muhammad(PBUH). Mufassirūn (Arabic: مفسرون, an author of a tafsīr) have not been consonant or consonant in what is meant by the mentioned parable and what this verse means and have raised views that each one faces a kind of challenge. The present research, by a descriptive-analytical and critical method, has tried to provide the most appropriate tafsīr (Arabic: تفسیر, Quranic exegesis) or Quranic exegesis by examining this verse and other verses and analyzing the Quranic exegesis and narratives that are under the verse. The results show that there is a confusion between the two types of narratives related to the cause of the revelation and ignoring this point has made it more difficult to understand the verse. Therefore, the narration that attributes the parable to the polytheists and not necessarily to Ibn Zibaʿrī (Arabic: ابن زبعری) is more correct and at the same time more consistent with the context of the verses themselves. This can be considered as a criticism of the Quran based on examining ʾaḥādīṯ transmitted to mufassirūn who consider the given parable to be from God.