Muqatil ibn Sulayman
Abū-l Ḥassan Muqātil ibn Sulaymān Al-Balkhī | |
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| Personal life | |
| Died | 767 CE (150 Hijri) |
| Era | Early Islam |
| Main interest(s) | Tafsir, Hadith |
| Notable work(s) | Tafsīr Muqatil |
| Occupation | Scholar of Islam, Mufassir |
| Religious life | |
| Religion | Islam |
| Muslim leader | |
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Muqātil ibn Sulaymān (Arabic: أبو الحسن مقاتل بن سليمان البلخى, romanized: Abū-l Ḥassan Muqātil ibn Sulaymān Al-Balkhī) (d. 767 C.E.) was an 8th-century Muslim scholar of the Quran, controversial for his anthropomorphism. He wrote one of the earliest, if not first, commentaries of the Qur'an which is still available today.
Muqatil is the author of a tafsir (commentary) on the Quran that John Wansbrough considers the oldest surviving complete tafsir and discusses in some detail. This work was still in manuscript when Wansbrough wrote but has since been published.