Masters of tafsir such al–Thawri and Shu'bah related from him.

Masters of tafsir such al–Thawri and Shu'bah related from him. ’ Al–Najashi has mentioned him and also his tafsir and so did Sheikh Abu Jafar al–Tusi in his list of Shi’ah authors. Ibn Qutaybah explicitly stated in Al–Ma’arif and al–Asqalani in Al–Taqrib and Tahdhib al–Tahdhib that he (al–Suddi) was a Shi’ah. He was a disciple of Ali ibn al–Husein, al–Baqir and al–Sadiq, peace be on them. Another one was Muhammad ibn al–Sa’ib ibn Bishr al–Kalbi, the author of a famous tafsir .

Ibn al–Nadim has mentioned him when he listed the books compiled on Qur’anic exegesis. Ibn Adiy says in his Al–Kamil : “Al–Kalbi has many sound hadiths to his credit especially those related on the authority of Abu Salih. He was also well-known for his exegesis. No one has a lengthier and more elaborate exegesis than his”. Al–Sam’ani says “Muhammad ibn al–Sa’ib, the exegete, was from Kufa and believed in the returning, al–raj’ah .

His son, Hisham had a respectable lineage and he was an extremist Shi’ah.” He was among the special partisans of Imam Zayn al–Abidin and his son al–Baqir. He died in the year 146 A. H. Among them was also Jabir ibn Yazid al–Ju'fi who was an authority on exegesis. He learnt it from Imam al–Baqir to whom he had devoted himself. He died in 127 A. H. The commentary by al–Ju'fi is not the same as that ascribed to Imam al–Baqir, which Ibn al–Nadim mentioned in his list of the works on exegesis.

He said: “The book of al–Baqir, Muhammad ibn Ali ibn al–Husayn…. was related from him by Abu al–Jarud, Ziyad ibn al–Mundhir, the head of Jarudiyyah, a branch of the Zaydiyyah.” A group of reliable Shi’ah scholars such as Abu Basir, Yahya ibn al–Qasim and al–Asadi had transmitted the commentary of Imam al–Baqir on the authority of Ibn al–Jarud before he joined the Zaydiyyah.

Section Two: The First Writers of the Recitation of the Qur’an and the First Compilers of the Different Recitations The pioneer in this field was Aban ibn Taghlib al–Rab'i (Abu Sa’id) while others believe that it was Abu Umaymah al–Kufi. Al–Najashi wrote in his index of Shi’ah writers: ‘Aban, may Allah have mercy on him, was a pioneer in all the disciplines pertaining to the Qur’an, jurisprudence and hadith.