​​الطبري .. كتاب مائة أوائل من تراثنا ، الكاتب عبد الهادي حرصوني

Tiberius 224 _ 310

When he mentions the history of Islam in its first three bright centuries, he mentions the name of the greatest without his news and he took care of it, and he is Muhammad bin Jarir al-Tabari, and when the researcher reviews the books that were classified in the interpretation of the Qur’an, he finds that al-Tabari was one of the greatest and most comprehensive commentators in his work

Al-Tabari is Abu Jaafar Muhammad ibn Jarir. He was born in the city of Amal, the capital of the Tabaristan region located on the eastern shores of the Caspian Sea. His city, then his determination to travel, so he traveled towards Baghdad, and in a number of his way, he met, then the traveler landed in Baghdad and met the great men of knowledge in the Islamic world, so he took them and attended their gatherings, and heard their conversations and debates, and he visited, while he was in Iraq, both Basra and Kufa from Scientists took it

Al-Tabari was interested in the sciences of the Qur’an, and the jurisprudence of the various major schools of Islam, history, and other sciences, so he was one of the men of encyclopedia of knowledge.
He wrote it on the condition that his stay did not last long in Egypt, when he returned to Baghdad to settle, and his fame had preceded him to it, and in Baghdad he had his own council for teaching and dictating, and students of knowledge circled around him, and he began to compile a number of books and began to dictate them to his students, and the most important books that he dictated A book on the interpretation of the Qur’an known as (Jami’ al-Bayan fi Tafsir al-Qur’an). He named it above the actions that preceded it, and no one could dispute him after that regarding his position

To the Levant, where he met the bearers of knowledge there, and from the Levant he went to Egypt, where he stayed for a short period, then returned to the Levant, but left it again for Egypt, and he had gained fame with knowledge and knowledge, and people accepted to take from him in Fustat

He also dictated to his students a book on history known as The History of the Messengers and Kings (or Nations and Kings), in which he chronicled creation from Adam until the beginning of the fourth century AH. This book came in a size almost equal to the size of the book of interpretation

That Al-Tabari spoke about the period between Adam and the advent of the Prophet Muhammad is of great value, because it relied on the heritage of the Israelites, but Al-Tabari’s reliance on the beginning of creation has many meanings that lead us to his historical conception, which is based on the fact that the message of Islam completed the messages of the previous prophets, and that with the prophethood of the Prophet it ended The era of the messengers, and not the article Muhammad began the era of kings