The verses that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not interpret, and the book that gathers all interpretations based on reports

Question:
The Shaykh’s question: Are there verses and surahs that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) did not interpret? What is the wisdom behind that? And what is the interpretation that gathers the largest possible number of authentic interpretations from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)? Not everything by which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) interpreted has reached us.

Answer:
Not everything by which the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) interpreted has reached us, been preserved, and been narrated. There may be interpretations that did not reach us and were not transmitted to us. In any case, the Messenger did not provide a general interpretation of the Qur’an; rather, he interpreted some verses, or some ambiguous points, or some matters. He did not provide a general interpretation of the entire Qur’an from beginning to end. Rather, he specified the interpretation of certain verses and taught his Companions the interpretation of certain verses, and they narrated them to us from the Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him). The greatest book, or rather the book most comprehensive in interpretation based on reports, as I mentioned to you, is the Tafsir of Imam Ibn Jarir al-Tabari. This is the source of interpretations because it is a great, comprehensive interpretation, and he is called the Imam of the Mufassirun (interpreters). Every interpreter who came after him is dependent on him (may Allah have mercy on him). There are also interpretations dedicated to interpretation by transmitted reports, such as al-Durr al-Mansur by Imam al-Suyuti in interpreting the Qur’an by transmitted reports, and such as the Tafsir of Ibn Kathir (may Allah have mercy on him). He means by interpretation what he mentioned in the introduction of his book, Tafsir al-Qur’an al-Azim (The Great Interpretation of the Qur’an). He stated that the interpretation of the Qur’an is according to the methods I mentioned to you at the beginning of Ibn Kathir’s Tafsir. He means by interpreting the Qur’an with the Sunnah: as long as he finds an interpretation of the Qur’an with authentic Sunnah, he does not turn away from it. And if he mentions an interpretation other than that, it is only in the sense of gathering, gathering what was said about the verse. Yes.