Taberî9-10. c.✓ Citation verified
According to Taberî, this verse informs us that just as Allah clarified the manners of children asking permission and the mutual rights between spouses, He similarly explained in His book to His Prophet all other rulings in the same clear manner. The purpose of this clarification is for the believers to understand Allah's established boundaries, comprehend their obligatory duties, and thus know what will benefit them in matters of religion and worldly affairs. Furthermore, it is stated that rulings are explained in this way so that no one produces an excuse by saying 'I did not know Allah's ruling on that matter.'
كما بينت لكم ما يلزمكم لأزواجكم ويلزم أزواجكم لكم أيها المؤمنون، وعرفتكم أحكامي والحق الواجب لبعضكم على بعض في هذه الآيات، فكذلك أبين لكم سائر الأحكام في آياتي التي أنزلتها على نبيي محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم في هذا الكتاب
İbn Kesîr14. c.✓ Citation verified
According to İbn Kesîr, this expression indicates that Allah has made clear, explicit, and interpreted His ruling regarding what He has made lawful and unlawful, regarding obligatory duties and prescribed punishments, and regarding what He has commanded and forbidden; He did not leave this unclear or ambiguous when it was needed.
أي في إحلاله وتحريمه وفروضه وحدوده فيما أمركم به ونهاكم عنه بينه ووضحه وفسره ولم يتركه مجملا في وقت احتياجكم اليه
Beydâvî13. c.✓ Citation verified
According to Beydâvî, this verse applies mut'a (a gift/maintenance) for divorced women in general to all divorced women; whereas previously this ruling had been limited to a specific group (those without a specified bridal gift). Some scholars, not accepting this generalization as a specification of the meaning over what is abrogated, counted it as obligatory for every divorced woman like Ibn Jubayr did, while others interpreted it to encompass both obligatory and recommended mut'a. Furthermore, it is noted that the word 'mata' can mean maintenance during the waiting period, and the repetition may have been done for emphasis or to indicate the reiteration of the ruling.
أثبت المتعة للمطلقات جميعا بعد ما أوجبها لواحدة منهن، وإفراد بعض العام بالحكم لا يخصصه إلا إذا جوزنا تخصيص المنطوق بالمفهوم ولذلك أوجبها ابن جبير لكل مطلقة
Comparison
Common ground
Taberî and İbn Kesîr unite in emphasizing that the verse presents Allah's rulings clearly, distinctly, and without leaving them ambiguous; both establish the verse's connection with previous rulings (asking permission, family law, the lawful and unlawful) through contextual reading.
Differences
While Taberî and İbn Kesîr read the verse as a general principle of 'clarification of rulings,' Beydâvî operates on an entirely different axis, focusing on the scope of the mut'a (divorce gift) ruling and whether it is general or specific, discussing this through linguistic/rhetorical and jurisprudential methodology approaches; this difference largely stems from their focus on different passages of the verse or different emphases, as well as Beydâvî's adoption of a more jurisprudential-linguistic interpretation method.
Historical context
Taberî's early period approach centered on narrations and context has largely continued to be preserved in İbn Kesîr's work; Beydâvî, in the later period, incorporated detailed discussions of linguistic and jurisprudential methodology (general-specific, implicit-explicit) into the verse through the developing tradition of opinion-based exegesis. This demonstrates that the method of exegesis expanded over time from narration toward linguistic-jurisprudential analysis, but this is not a contradiction—rather a diversity of method.
Modern connection
This comparative reading points to the importance of presenting religious rulings in an understandable and clear manner, both so that the individual knows their responsibility and so that justice is ensured in societal relationships, especially regarding rights within the family. The multifaceted explanations that different exegetes bring to the same verse provides a cautious example of how various perspectives in the scholarly tradition can be evaluated together with respect, which can also encourage an attitude of tolerance and openness to learning.
AI analysis — not a fatwa or ruling, not yet reviewed by a scholar