Book

Mushaf al-Gharib

The Madina mushaf in the narration of Hafs from 'Asim (1441 AH printing). Each mushaf page is on the right, facing a commentary page with the rare words (gharib) of each line, the occasions of revelation, and the hadiths of the tafsir books with their grades. Every word of the commentary is quoted verbatim from its source with a reference; nothing is generated. The book is in Arabic.

604 mushaf pages
31 volumes: introductions and thirty juz'
6 books on gharib al-Qur'an

Files last updated: 12 October 2026 · commit bcef149

The complete book in one file

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With an index, bookmarks and links between pages. It is large; the volume files are lighter for reading on a phone.

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Volumes

Other files

Review of Ibn Qutayba's pointers to Ta'wil Mushkil al-Qur'an

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Print-shop files (PDF/X-3)

For uncoated cream paper, 17 × 24 cm trim with 3 mm bleed.

Sources of the commentary

Rare words of the Qur'an

Oldest first: Abu 'Ubayda's Majaz al-Qur'an, al-Bukhari's glosses in his Sahih, Ibn Qutayba's Gharib al-Qur'an, al-Raghib's al-Mufradat, Ibn al-Ha'im's al-Tibyan and al-Khudayri's al-Siraj, with the editors' notes.

Occasions of revelation and hadith

Al-Wadi'i's al-Sahih al-Musnad min Asbab al-Nuzul, al-Muzayni's Asbab al-Nuzul through the Nine Books, and the tafsir chapters of al-Bukhari, Muslim, al-Tirmidhi and al-Nasa'i's al-Kubra, each hadith followed by its grade, with notes from Ibn Qutayba's Ta'wil Mushkil al-Qur'an.

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