Iranian scholar, historian and commentator on the Qur'an (839–923)
A 9th-century scholar from northern Iran who produced two works that would anchor Islamic learning for the next millennium: a line-by-line Quran commentary and a chronicle of world history from creation to his own time, both running thousands of pages.
Born in 839 in Amol, Tabaristan, Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari studied across the Islamic world before settling into a life of writing that spanned jurisprudence, history, poetry, grammar, mathematics, and medicine. He began as a follower of the Shafi'i legal school, then spent a decade developing his own system of Islamic law—fluid, evolving, debated until his death in 923. That school, called Jariri after his given name Jarir, thrived for two centuries among Sunni scholars before fading from practice. What endured were his twin monuments: Tafsir al-Tabari, the Quranic exegesis, and Tarikh al-…
Sourced, dated quotes from Al-Tabari
Arabs are the most noble people in lineage, the most prominent, and the best in deeds. We were the first to respond to the call of the Prophet.
I have fabricated things against God and have imputed to Him words which He has not spoken.
[...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave.
I have not been ordered to fight you. I have only been ordered not to leave you until I bring you to al-Kufah.
Muhammad carried arms, helmets, and spears. He led a hundred horses, appointing Bahir to be in charge of the weapons and Maslamah to be in charge of the horses.
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