Do you advise a student of knowledge to use Ibn Jarir’s Tafsir, and how can one distinguish the authentic from the weak among the narrations contained in it?

Question:
(peace and blessings be upon him) Your Eminence, the questioner asks: Do you advise a student of knowledge to use the Tafsir of Imam Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, and how do I know which narrations in it are authentic and which are weak?

Answer:
Ibn Jarir al-Tabari’s Tafsir is massive, and a beginner is not able to read it or benefit from it. The reader must have scholarly capabilities; that is, he must be among the scholars who read it. As for the beginner, he should start with the easy, accessible, concise, and authentic Tafsirs. Yes. And as for saying, “I cannot distinguish between the hadiths,” well, praise be to Allah, this Tafsir has been verified and its hadiths have been extracted. Yes.