What is the best abridgment of Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir?
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May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the best abridgment of Ibn Kathir’s (may Allah have mercy on him) Tafsir, and what are the best Tafsir books in general?
Answer:
Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir is already concise and does not need to be abridged. But these people have taken Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir and tried to abridge it, and they do not know how to abridge properly. So I do not know of a good abridgment of Ibn Kathir, except for the one started by Shaykh Ahmad Shakir (may Allah have mercy on him). He began it and abridged it in a useful, scholarly manner. But he died before completing it. He reached, I think, the Tafsir of Surat al-Ma’idah, and then death took him (may Allah have mercy on him). As for the other abridgments, they are deficient abridgments, yes. And Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir itself is concise, yes.
May Allah reward you. The questioner asks: What is the best abridgment of Ibn Kathir’s (may Allah have mercy on him) Tafsir, and what are the best Tafsir books in general?
Answer:
Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir is already concise and does not need to be abridged. But these people have taken Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir and tried to abridge it, and they do not know how to abridge properly. So I do not know of a good abridgment of Ibn Kathir, except for the one started by Shaykh Ahmad Shakir (may Allah have mercy on him). He began it and abridged it in a useful, scholarly manner. But he died before completing it. He reached, I think, the Tafsir of Surat al-Ma’idah, and then death took him (may Allah have mercy on him). As for the other abridgments, they are deficient abridgments, yes. And Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir itself is concise, yes.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، [282] ما أفضل مختصر لتفسير ابن كثير؟ - صالح الفوزان — youtube.com
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