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Ibn Katheer's interpretation of the Holy Qur'an was distinguished by a number of characteristics. Including giving the Arabic language an advanced position in his approach, and making it one of the sources of interpretation, and his following the doctrine of the predecessors with regard to the verses related to the faith, and he was concerned with mentioning the chains of hadiths that he quotes, in addition to correcting, weakening or weighting some of them, and this is one of the most important characteristics of his interpretation, and his interpretation is considered one of the most correct. He wrote the interpretation, and in it he mentioned the reasons for the revelation, and he took care of mentioning the readings, and he avoided tautology, redundancy and prolongation in the explanation, and he did not go too much into the linguistic investigations; such as grammar, morphology, and rhetoric.Ibn Katheer used to present the sayings of the interpreters, discuss them, and give preference to them, as he used to present during his interpretation the fundamentalist and jurisprudential rulings, and explain the sayings of the jurists and their differences in one issue, and mention their evidence. Its total meaning, and many quotations from the scholars of the predecessors with the mention of the name of the speaker, and this is one of the advantages of his interpretation because he documents every saying he mentions and attributes it to its owner, and he combined the completeness of the meaning and the brevity of the phrase, and between strength and quality, as he warned in his book that the interpretation of the tradition had Contains reprehensible Israeli novels.
He is the Muslim scholar, the jurist, the mufti, the hadeeth, the interpreter, the historian, the memorizer, the participant in the language, and the narrator Abu al-Fida Imad al-Din Isma`il Ibn Umar bin Katheer bin Dhu’a bin Katheer bin Zar’ al-Qurashi, who was born in the year 701 AH in the village of Majdal in Basra al-Sham from Daraa region located in the south of Damascus, and he was the son of a mosque preacher in the city of Busra, Sheikh Omar bin Katheer, and his origins go back to Basra, from which he immigrated to the Levant.
Ibn Kathir is Ismail bin Omar bin Katheer bin Dawha bin Katheer bin Zar’ al-Qurashi al-Basrui al-Dimashqi, the son of al-Khatib Sheikh Shihab al-Din Abi Hafs Omar bin Katheer. He learned it at the hands of a group of sheikhs, including: Abu al-Hajjaj al-Mazi, Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi, and Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah. of science; So he had one or more works in every sea of Islamic sciences.
