The purpose of this work is to define the position of the Quran in such a way that the Holy Book explains itself, rather than merely giving our own opinions concerning it.
In other words the position we attribute to the Holy Quran, through reason or lack of it, if found to be contrary to the Quranic views, will not be valid. The only position which may be acceptable is what is denoted by the Holy Quran itself.
From an indication in the Quran itself, the commentary of the Prophet and the Imams is established as being absolutely true. Authentication of the sayings of the Prophet and the Imams is clearly established by the existence of fully trustworthy chains of transmissions. A tradition may not, however be recognized as totally acceptable if it has been transmitted by one chain of narration only.
Keywords: the Holy Quran, Interpretation, Al-Mizan, Criticism of Text, Criticism of Documents, Tafsir-oriented Narrations.

Nematollah Safari

Mohammad bn Jarir Tabari and Dalail al-Imamah

The present article is devoted to the verification of the book Dalail al-Imamah ascribed to Mohammad bn Jarir Tabari.
In spite of the great scholars' efforts such as Aqa Bozorg Tehrani in his book al-Dhariah and al-Nabes and Tostari in his book al-Akhbar al-Dakhilah , on identification of the author of Dalail al-Imamah, there is very little information on the life of Mohammad bn Jarir Tabri
There are many points concerning document and content of book's narrations which deserves great attention to be paid to them.
Keywords: Mohammad bn Jarir Tabari, Dalail al-Imamah, Nawadir al-Mojezat, al-Mostarshed, document criticism, text criticism.

Mahdi Ghulam Ali

Familiarization with the Exegesis Department of College of Hadith Sciences

In this paper the following themes are reviewed: Displaying the status of the Quran exegesis and the features of hadith - based exegesis (tafsir mathur), introducing